[NeroASERCH]

Part III

The judgment

In sentencing Eichmann to die, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau said, "the objective of the crimes against the Jewish People of which the accused was found guilty was to obliterate an entire people from the face of the earth." As such, they "differ from criminal acts perpetrated against persons as individuals."

However, the judge went on to say, that, "at the stage of passing sentence consideration must also, and perhaps primarily, be given to the injury inflicted on the victims as individuals, which was implicit in these crimes, and the immeasurable anguish which they and their families suffered and still suffer to this very day because of these crimes."

"For the dispatch of each train by the accused to Auschwitz, or to any other extermination site, carrying one thousand human beings, meant that the accused was a direct accomplice in a thousand premeditated acts of murder, and the degree of his legal and moral responsibility for these acts of murder is not one iota less than the responsibility of the person who with his own hands pushed these human beings into the gas chambers..."

Surely the same is true concerning Arafat's victims who, while he sees all Jews everywhere as simply "vermin" to be exterminated, and is thus guilty of waging a campaign of genocide against the Jewish people, is also as responsible for the deaths of all these individuals, and the excruciating pain caused their loved ones, as were the gunmen and 'suicide' bombers who, pledging allegiance to their leader, pulled the triggers and detonated the explosives that physically took all those lives.

Plausible deniability

Except for when he cannot control his own bloodlust and sings the praises of the "martyrs" who leave places like Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market strewn with Jewish bodies, Arafat has successfully created the appearance of distance between himself and the other Palestinian terror groups.

He learned this tactic from former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, according to Ion Mihai Pacepa, former head of Romanian intelligence, who quotes Ceausescu as telling Arafat back in 1978, "...you can keep as many operational groups as you want, as long as they are not publicly connected with your name. They could mount endless operations all around the world, while your name and your 'government' would remain pristine and unspoiled, ready for negotiations and further recognition."

While Arafat learned that lesson well and put it into practice, he has been unmasked by Israel's intelligence services and is known to work in close conjunction with Hamas and other terror organizations.

Writes intelligence analyst Christopher Story: "Hamas (and its subdivisions) is and always has been an integral component of the umbrella organization known as the Palestine Liberation Organization…" A former Hamas leader, Sheikh Mahmoud Zahar, has described the PLO-Hamas relationship as being "like the wings of a bird," that work together."

Just two weeks ago, before 21 Israelis, among them many little children, were bombed to death on a Jerusalem bus by a Hamas member, Israeli intelligence warned that Arafat had given the terror group the green light to perpetrate attacks.

Whether for the 1972 killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games by a Palestinian group calling itself 'Black September,' or for the same group's 1973 murder in Khartoum of US Ambassador Cleo A. Noel, for which Arafat personally took the credit; whether for the 1974 shooting to death of 21 Israeli schoolchildren in Ma'alot by the DFLP, the 1975 Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel attack in which eight hostages were murdered, the 1978 Coastal Road bus hijacking by Arafat's Fatah group in which 35 people were massacred, or all the bombings which followed the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1991 - Yasser Arafat is directly responsible for them all.

Sentence him to death

"This Court sentences Adolf Eichmann to death, for the crimes against the Jewish People, the crimes against humanity and the war crimes of which he has been found guilty..."

There is no doubt that Yasser Arafat should likewise be made to pay the full price for the terrible crimes he is guilty of committing against the Jewish people.

And we have not even touched here upon his debt to all those thousands of other, non-Jewish victims of Arab terror who, like the Maronite Christians in Lebanon, and hundreds of Palestinian and other Arabs were killed by Arafat's own people, or who died at the hands of the many terror groups who took their lessons from the arch terrorist of all time.

Commander of the mission - Rafi Eitan

We are not lone voices calling for Arafat's detention, trial and hanging.

Speaking on Israel Radio on August 25, a little over four decades after Eichmann went to his death, Rafi Eitan called for Arafat to be dealt with in the same way.

Eitan was the man selected to command the Eichmann operation. Along with two others, he physically grabbed and forced the Nazi killer into the car that abducted him.

According to Eitan, who was the Mossad's director of operations for 25 years, "Arafat is a war criminal. We should take him to court and try him for war crimes. He has brought great misery and destruction on the Palestinians and on us. He is a murderer.

"Bring him to Jerusalem, like Eichmann."

Today, Sunday, the leader of the national Religious Party, Effi Eitam, echoed this call:

"Israel should arrest Arafat, try him for war crimes, mass murder and sentence him to death."

It is a call that should find echo across the Land of Israel and, indeed, throughout the civilized world.

For the full, gripping account of the Eichmann kidnapping, see Harel's book, The House on Garibaldi Street (Viking Press; June 1975)

http://www.jnewswire.com/editorial/0...try_arafat.asp


Sharon should have killed Arafat back in the 1980’s.

[Drugmachine]

Uhhh... To the above, are you delusional or just stupid? Arabs are going to abduct Israelis off the streets and put them on "trial"? How is that any different from what's been going on for the past three years, fully aided and abetted by Arafat?

"Oh my, those terrorist bombers are nothing compared to the threat of Arabs abducting Israelis off the street in the middle of the day (or night) in Tel Aviv and putting them on trial!"

Right. Uh-huh. I can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, if you're interested...

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

I agree, he should be brought to public trial, like Eichmann or Miliocevich, or Nuremberg-style. Advantages:

1. He will be judged by Law for crimes against humanity. A good argument against his present or future defenders.

2. It will prove that everyone on his side (PA/PLO/Fatah, EU, UN, Nobel Prize Committee, ISM, etc.) were wrong. Very wrong.

3. Expelling him would give him too much PR power. Simply killing him solves some problems, but creates others.

4. Recover his assets (all those billions) to help his victims and their families.

5. This would be a start of long and painful denazification process.