Steve Malzberg
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004

In my piece (available at www.newsmax.com/malzberg in the archives) I wondered what the world would say, if, instead of blowing up Jewish women and children in buses, pizza parlors, shopping malls, and markets, these Palestinian murderers had been rounding up their Jewish victims and taking them to mini-gas chambers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip? Would the civilized world, which I presume includes the European Union, then call these animals Nazis?

Now let's fast forward to ABC's This Week. The panel was discussing the prospects for the creation of a Palestinian state in the aftermath of Arafat's death.

As usual, only the great George Will showed that he gets it. While the others, including Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria and Richard Haas, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, spoke about what the U.S. and Israel must do to make it easier for the Palestinians to elect more moderate leadership in the upcoming elections to replace Arafat, Will hit it right on the head.

"In June 2002 the President said there's no problem in getting to peace in the Middle East and a Palestinian state, if the Palestinian people can generate a leadership that is peaceful...for Israel."

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But Will doesn't buy into the feasibility of the elections now slated for January 9th. "Sixty days we're going to do this? Palestinian leaders have supported Germany and central powers in World War One, Hitler in World War Two, Stalin in the Cold War, and Saddam Huessein in the Gulf War. That's a losing streak."

And then Will got to the heart of the matter. "Tomorrow morning Palestinian children will get up and go to schools where teachers appointed by the Palestinian Authority and textbooks selected by them will teach them a kind of virulent anti-Semitism akin to that in Nazi Germany. We need ten years of de-Nazification to get over what the Oslo Accords brought when they brought that thug and his thug-ocracy back to Palestine."

Bingo!

The "thug" referred to by George Will is of course Yasser Arafat. I prefer the term "animal." After all, Arafat is the inventor of modern day terrorism.

Hijackings, blowing up buses and buildings, taking over schools and the murdering school children, gunning down passengers waiting at airport terminals or folks sunning themselves on beaches, and of course murdering athletes at the Olympics - give Arafat credit for it all.

Another clue that leads one to believe Will is right is what took place on Sunday in Gaza City.

Hours after Will made his observations, Mahmoud Abbas, the temporary successor to Arafat escaped death when terrorists fired assault rifles into a mourning tent for Arafat where Abbas was paying his respects.

Two security guards were killed and six others were injured. Some of the gunman accused Abbas of being an agent of the United States.

And just who is Mahmoud Abbas? According to Mort Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the man also known as Abu Mazen, has authored a book denying that the Nazis murdered six million Jews.

On July 23, 2003, Mazen , who was then the PA Prime Minister said that "cracking down on Hamas, Jihad, and the Palestinian (terror) organizations is not an option at all." He also offered cabinet positions to leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, according to the N.Y. Times.

Klein also points out that Ahmed Qureia (Abu Alla), the current PA Prime Minister, opposes stopping the terror. "It is a mistake to aim the Palestinian weapon at a Palestinian." (Al-Nahar June 12, 2003) Alla also attacked President Bush for referring to Israel as "a Jewish State." (Al-Nahar June 12, 2003)

Thankfully the President made that reference again at last Friday's joint press conference with Britain's Tony Blair. Mr. Bush also said that there can be a Palestinian state provided that the Palestinian people elect a democratic government and end the terror. Personally, I don't think either one of these conditions is attainable.

The past positions of Abu Mazzen and Abu Alla help to make my point, but there's more. Wire service reports out of Ramallah in the West Bank say that Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti says he may run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.

Just one problem: Barghouti is serving multiple life terms in an Israeli prison for his involvement in attacks that killed four Israelis and a Greek.

And so goes the sad story of a people who have been taken over by hatred. A people who teach their children that killing the Jew and doing it as a suicide bomber is the ultimate. I believe the new Nazis will continue without their modern day Hitler.