THE LIES NEVER STOP
Sharon Nader Sloan, Esq. Lebanese-American, 19 April 2002
On Friday, April 12, Yasser Arafat spoke from his compound in Ramallah,
via his cell phone, to a cathedral in Egypt packed with 5,000 Christian
copts. He created an outburst of applause and adulation when he told
them that the 200 killers holed up in the Church of the Nativity were
there to protect the Christian “holy” site from the Israeli invaders.
He vowed to protect, to the death, all holy Christian and Muslim sites
in “holy” Jerusalem. He then continued: “The Israeli aggression on
the
Church of the Nativity is a crime, and we will continue to defend it.”
Again, the whole cathedral applauded. The head of the Coptic Orthodox
Church, Pope Shenouda, III, praised Arafat and said: “All our people
are with you.”
This whole thing is so outrageous a lie that it makes one want to puke.
Aside from the fact that Arafat and his henchmen have been harassing
and
persecuting the Christians living under Palestinian rule to a degree
that many of them escaped to live elsewhere, if Arafat wants to protect
the Church of the Nativity, all he has to do is order his 200 murderers
to leave the church. He knows they will not be killed. The Israeli
army will only arrest them to be put on trial. And even if they are
found guilty, they will not be executed, because Israel does not have
the death penalty.
Arafat will not do this because he wants the world to intervene and set
them free. He needs them to continue his war of terror on Israel.
There is a real possibility that he will get what he wants, because
Europe and all the Arab countries are going to pretend to buy into this
lie, and demand that Israel allow these terrorists to go free to
continue their nefarious operations.
There is also a real possibility that America will save them, just like
they saved Arafat and his thugs in Lebanon.
Certainly Arafat will not change his mind and order these people to
leave the church, because whatever he may say, he really does not want
peace with Israel. Arafat thrives on turmoil and conflict. If peace
were forced on him tomorrow, he would not know what to do. He does not
really want a Palestinian state either. He would have to provide
schools, hospitals, roads, industry, and a democratic political
structure, etc., etc. He does not want a state. Ehud Barak offered
him
a state. He rejected it. He only wants to fight for a state. He
wants
to be a hero to his people, not govern a nation.
Terrorists generally do not want peace to happen. If peace happens,
what would they do? How would they be important? How would they be
somebody? There would literally be nothing for them to do. So their
whole raison d’etre is to keep the conflict going until death. Blood
and terror is their whole life. Those who have experienced terrorists
know that they really take great pleasure in hating and in killing.
They do not want peace, so lasting peace with Arafat is never going to
happen.
As far as the problem at the Church of the Nativity, the simple
solution
is for the Pope and the Vatican to order these men off their property.
The commandment in the Old Testament to give sanctuary to a murderer is
only when refusing sanctuary would risk death for the murderer. Here
this is not the case. At worst they would risk prison. Hence the
Vatican should tell them to get out. That would solve the whole
problem, because Arafat would not go against the Vatican.
Today I heard that there is a compromise being floated and Israel is
buying into it; namely, that the terrorists in the church be deported.
Big mistake.
What do you think will happen after these terrorists are deported?
Will
they join the Salvation Army? No. They will immediately join Hezbolla
and/or Al Queda. They will become more dangerous than before.
The Vatican, and whoever else owns the Church of the Nativity, must
expel them, and Israel needs to put them on trial. If innocent, set
them free. If guilty, put them in prison for life.
Sharon Nader Sloan, Esq.
Lebanese-American
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