. . . it makes no reference to the dozens of suicide bombs carried out in the period from 1994 to 2000, after Yasser Arafat set up the Palestinian Authority. Some of these were carried out on Arafat's direct orders. The figure it provides for the number of suicide bombs since January 2001 - 52 - is an underestimate by at least 50 per cent. It also fails to state (even though there is a wealth of evidence to show this) that Arafat has personally given orders to the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades to carry out suicide and other attacks on Israeli civilians. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades is simply one of the military arms of Fatah which is under the sole financial and political control of Yasser Arafat.
You may remember that another human rights organization published a condemnation of suicide bombings, as declared in this press release. But good luck trying to find the actual report on their website. The press release ends:
Amnesty International has recently published a report on attacks against civilians. The report Without distinction -- attacks on civilians by Palestinian armed groups documents 128 attacks in which more than 350 civilians, most of them Israeli, were killed since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa intifada in September 2000.When you click on that URL, you do not find said report, just another tearjerker about Jenin. I searched on combinations of "israel," "civilians," "suicide," "bombers." No documents found. If you find it, will you let me know?
For more information please see: http://web.amnesty.org/web/web.nsf/pages/iot_home.
Meanwhile, let's see how long the HRW report stays up.
UPDATE: The Amnesty report is here according to my intrepid informants. Now can someone give me a path to it from the Amnesty home page?
UPDATE: Many links here to articles claiming Arafat's involvement with terrorist acts not mentioned in the HRW report, such as the assassination of U.S. Embassador Cleo Noel, the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, and the Munich Olympics massacre.
UPDATE: How long the HRW report stays up? Given how fast Amnesty scurried back into the PC fold, maybe we should start a pool.
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