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Arafat: Bin Laden's Inspiration
(Jerusalem Post)Alan Dershowitz - Arafat managed to leapfrog the Palestinian cause over equally or more deserving causes - such as Tibetan freedom, Kurdish independence, and Basque statehood - by wielding three immoral weapons: first, international terrorism on a scale previously unknown to the world; second, an alliance with oil-rich states willing to extort support for his cause by energy blackmail; and third, exploitation of international anti-Semitism against the Jewish state. Arafat was personally responsible for the murders of thousands of innocent Israelis, hundreds of innocent Americans, and countless others, including several well-planned attacks on Israeli schools and nurseries. He also personally ordered the murder of hundreds of his own people who disagreed with him or collaborated with Israel. Arafat was the inspiration for Osama bin Laden, because he proved that terrorism works and that terrorists can be praised and rewarded by a craven world, as Arafat was by so many for so long.