ZGram - 5/9/2002 - "Israel's black propaganda falters"
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Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny
May 9, 2002
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
A Zundelsite supporter and researcher wrote:
"Here is the documentation I promised you on Sharon's bar mitzvah
[Arik Scheinerman] name. I would like to see everyone on our side of
the barricades remind audiences of this sort of thing regularly. Ben
Gurion ("son of lion") started life more prosaically as "Gruen"
(green) in Poland. Netanyahu ("gift of God") was assumed by the
Milyukich (approximate spelling) family of Eastern Europe and USA
Ex-PM and Mossad killer, Yitzak Shamir ("sacred worm" - in myth, the
sculptor of stones for Solomon's Temple) was Yezernitski ŠThese are
just off the top of my head. A little research could certainly
produce an extremely long list - almost like media and Hollywood name
changers over here. Even the mighty Rothschilds, of course, were
originally the far humbler Bauer clan of Frankfurt."
My friend is referring to a characteristic of the people of the
"other faith" we Gentiles find extremely difficult to accommodate -
that you could never quite trust them when they tell you this or
that. I remember how frustrated I was in the 1996 cyberwar when I
thought I had come to an agreement with Nizkor folks on how to
conduct a mutually respectful debate after countless letters back and
forth - only to find out that they turned on a dime and came back
with "Šdebate? What debate?"
Here is one such example, published by England's Independent and dated today:
[START]
Israel's black propaganda bid falters as documents reveal an impotent
leader not a terrorist mastermind
Israel's "Book of Terror" purporting to show Arafat's role in suicide
attacks is 'riddled with omissions and falsehoods'
By Robert Fisk in Ramallah
09 May 2002
Internal links
Israel's so-called Book of Terror - designed to prove that Yasser
Arafat is a master of terror involved in suicide attacks on Israel -
is riddled with errors, omissions and deliberate misinformation.
The dossier, which was presented to President George Bush by the
Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, characterises Mr Arafat as an
evil, scheming warlord funded by Iran and Saudi Arabia.
But in some cases, translations of Palestinian documents allegedly
seized by Israeli troops in the West Bank have been doctored to
"prove" Arafat's responsibility for anti-Israeli attacks. At least
one "translation" of a Palestinian document posted on the Israeli
army's website is a palpable falsehood.
In reality the documents portray Mr Arafat's military impotence. The
papers the Israeli intelligence service have so far produced -
assuming that most of them are genuine - paint a vivid, pathetic
picture of his loss of power within the Palestinian community over
the past 12 months, the suborning of his lieutenants and the gradual
recruitment of his men by Hamas and Islamic Jihad opponents.
The original Arabic documents reveal just how the Israelis, in an
exercise in black propaganda, have manipulated their true meaning. On
20 March, this year, "Hamdi", one of Yasser Arafat's senior
intelligence officers in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, wrote a
report about a suspected Israeli collaborator called Jihad Ilayan.
"Further to our letter numbered TK/334/2002 dated 16/3/02 about the
[Israeli] helicopter strike on the chicken farm at Anabta and after
arresting the young man mentioned above, interrogating him and then
releasing him, we wish to inform you that he is now with a relative
named Riyadh Ilayan from the Jalazoan [refugee] camp and he [Riyadh]
works in General Intelligence," Hamdi's report said. The implications
are obvious. Riyadh Ilayan works for Mr Arafat's own intelligence
organisation but his relative Jihad is suspected of collaboration
with Israel.
Just 17 days earlier, another intelligence report from Tulkarem, this
time written on unheaded notepaper and unsigned, informs Mr Arafat's
men that the al-Aqsa Brigades in the city are planning "an operation
inside Israel". The brigade's modus operandi, says the document,
includes offering suspected Israeli collaborators forgiveness if they
kill Jewish settlers or Israeli soldiers or intelligence officers.
The forthcoming "operation" had been planned, the report states, by
Ghanem Ghanem of Force 17, Hani Abu Laimoon, "a previous operative of
ours", and an unnamed man who is referred to as a "drug dealer". The
same group, the document notes, had previously arranged the attack on
a banqueting hall in the northern Israeli city of Hadera. It does not
mention the results of that attack: six Israeli civilians dead and
another 35 wounded.
These reports - and many others - show just how far Yasser Arafat had
lost control of the militant organisations flourishing among the
Palestinians on the West Bank. But Israel's reaction was to go public
with accounts of their contents that were deliberately misleading
and, in at least one case, untrue. They claimed that the report on
Ilayan detailed his role in a failed suicide attack - when in fact it
recorded his suspected collaboration with Israel - while presenting
the second document as proof that Mr Arafat's own intelligence men
were involved in the al-Aqsa suicide squads. All references to the
drug dealer and the inducement to collaborators to seek forgiveness
were excised.
The Arabic texts suggest that Israel is fighting against men who have
long ago passed outside Mr Arafat's control, who are better funded
than his Palestinian Authority and whose anti-Israeli attacks can
only occasionally be foiled by Mr Arafat's still-loyal intelligence
officers.
Typical is the case of Mahmoud Freih, a 17-year-old Palestinian
schoolboy who was born in Kuwait and lived in Tulkarem. A report from
Mr Arafat's "Preventative Security" Office in the city dated 26
December last year informed his intelligence operatives that Freih
had originally been a member of the Democratic Front (a Marxist,
pro-Arafat group) but had since joined Islamic Jihad at the
instigation of a Tulkarem resident called Ayman Mahdawi. Mr Arafat's
men demanded to talk to Freih about his change of allegiance. But he
was already planning to plant a makeshift mine on a road used by
Israeli tanks near Shweikeh. The attack was aborted because of the
presence of Israeli soldiers. So he moved the bomb, ran a wire from
the explosives to a citrus tree in an orchard. Again, his attack
failed. Next day, Freih attended school but returned to the bomb's
location - only to find that the wire had been cut. Waiting for him
there were an official of the Palestinian Authority and an explosives
expert named Samir Abu Naser. He later confessed his activities to Mr
Arafat's men. A later note on the report says Freih was released
after questioning on condition he had been recruited - presumably by
the Palestinian Authority.
The story of how a 17-year-old schoolboy could involve himself in
Islamic Jihad and head off after classes to try to destroy an Israeli
tank casts a revealing light on the militancy of Palestinian youth.
The Israeli account deleted all reference to the role played by the
Palestinian Authority in foiling the attack on the Israelis. The full
text shows clearly that Mr Arafat's men did just what the Israelis
would wish: they stopped the attack and persuaded the boy to change
sides.
In other cases, however, Mr Arafat's intelligence officers woefully
failed to maintain the loyalty of their own men. Far from controlling
the powerful militias springing up in the West Bank who were intent
on an open conflict with the Israelis, Mr Arafat was simply
marginalised. A long report, dated 4 February, again written on
unheaded notepaper, details for Mr Arafat's intelligence men how the
Palestinian security apparatus in Jenin - along with local members of
Mr Arafat's own CIA-trained General Intelligence operation - had been
infiltrated and bought over with large payments of cash. One of the
disloyal intelligence men - "description: skinny, his teeth are
parted and dirty..." - is now paid by the Islamic Jihad group, the
paper says, "sometimes wears a mask in demonstrations and chants
against the Authority. Another man, an officer in the CIA-trained
Preventative Security known as "Al-Rikh", is described as "the source
of most of the weapons of Jihad and Hamas". The Fatah movement in
Jenin, the document adds, is "playing on both ropes ... they are with
the Authority but, when the Authority arrests someone, they are
against it." Money obviously plays a large part in the suborning of
Mr Arafat's men.
Israel's attempts to pin Mr Arafat's name to payments for
Palestinians who had committed anti-Israeli attacks rest on a few
documents which bear - or appear to bear - Yasser Arafat's signature.
One of these, dated 19 September last year, is a request for payments
of $2,500 to Raed el-Karni, Ziad Daas and Amar Qadan. The Israeli
version of this document fails to point out that both el-Karni and
Qadan were assassinated by Israeli forces four months later. Daas,
who is still alive, is believed to have planned the Hadera massacre
in retaliation for the Israeli murder of el-Karni. But the Hadera
killings took place on 17 January this year, four months after - not
before - the request to Mr Arafat. In the event, each man received
$600 each. Another document on headed "State of Palestine" paper,
records payments of $800 to 15 men, including Bilal Abu Aamsheh, who
was later accused by Israel of killing an Israeli on 31 May, 2001 and
two border guards on 11 September the same year. Again, the payments
were authorised not after the murders but almost two months before.
An account of money apparently needed for weapons production carries
the legend "Al-Aqsa Martyrs Troops" on the top of the page. According
to the Israelis, it is addressed to Fouad Shabaki, one of Mr Arafat's
confidants. But on the printed Arabic original, Shabaki's name does
not appear. What the paper does show - yet again - is the huge amount
of money available to the men who run the suicide squads. It includes
$80,000 for lathes, milling machines, welding machines and wiring.
Another paper, entitled "Financial Report" but again showing no
Arafat connections, details costs of bullets and chemicals for
explosive charges and bombs for al-Aqsa. It provides a startling
contrast between the cash available to the suicide squads and the
penny-pinching amounts that Mr Arafat apparently doled out.
The documents do provide a rare glimpse into the powerlessness of Mr
Arafat, the infiltration of his subordinates, the attempts to suborn
his own intelligence officers - one of them loyally tells Mr Arafat's
spooks that he has refused advances from Islamic Jihad. The last
thing they prove is that Mr Arafat is behind the wave of suicide
bombings that continued in Israel even yesterday. But that is not
what Mr Sharon wanted. He wants Mr Arafat removed from power.
So one of the most impotent men in Palestine had to be portrayed as
one of the most all-powerful "terrorists" in the world.
[END]
=====
Thought for the Day:
"Wait for that wisest of all counselor, time."
(Pericles, 495-429 B.C.)
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Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny<br>
<br>
May 9, 2002<br>
<br>
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:<br>
<br>
A Zundelsite supporter and researcher wrote:<br>
<br>
"Here is the documentation I promised you on Sharon's bar mitzvah
[Arik Scheinerman] name. I would like to see everyone on our
side of the barricades remind audiences of this sort of thing
regularly. Ben Gurion ("son of lion") started life more
prosaically as "Gruen" (green) in Poland. Netanyahu ("gift
of God") was assumed by the Milyukich (approximate spelling) family
of Eastern Europe and USA Ex-PM and Mossad killer, Yitzak Shamir
("sacred worm" - in myth, the sculptor of stones for Solomon's
Temple) was Yezernitski ŠThese are just off the top of my head.
A little research could certainly produce an extremely long list -
almost like media and Hollywood name changers over here. Even
the mighty Rothschilds, of course, were originally the far humbler
Bauer clan of Frankfurt."<br>
<br>
My friend is referring to a characteristic of the people of the
"other faith" we Gentiles find extremely difficult to accommodate -
that you could never quite trust them when they tell you this or
that. I remember how frustrated I was in the 1996 cyberwar when
I thought I had come to an agreement with Nizkor folks on how to
conduct a mutually respectful debate after countless letters back and
forth - only to find out that they turned on a dime and came back
with "Šdebate? What debate?"<br>
<br>
Here is one such example, published by England's Independent and
dated today:<br>
<br>
[START]<br>
<br>
Israel's black propaganda bid falters as documents reveal an impotent
leader not a terrorist mastermind<br>
<br>
Israel's "Book of Terror" purporting to show Arafat's role
in suicide attacks is 'riddled with omissions and falsehoods'<br>
<br>
By Robert Fisk in Ramallah<br>
<br>
09 May 2002<br>
<br>
Internal links<br>
<br>
Israel's so-called Book of Terror - designed to prove that Yasser
Arafat is a master of terror involved in suicide attacks on Israel -
is riddled with errors, omissions and deliberate misinformation.<br>
<br>
The dossier, which was presented to President George Bush by the
Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, characterises Mr Arafat as an
evil, scheming warlord funded by Iran and Saudi Arabia.<br>
<br>
But in some cases, translations of Palestinian documents allegedly
seized by Israeli troops in the West Bank have been doctored to
"prove" Arafat's responsibility for anti-Israeli attacks. At
least one "translation" of a Palestinian document posted on
the Israeli army's website is a palpable falsehood.<br>
<br>
In reality the documents portray Mr Arafat's military impotence. The
papers the Israeli intelligence service have so far produced -
assuming that most of them are genuine - paint a vivid, pathetic
picture of his loss of power within the Palestinian community over the
past 12 months, the suborning of his lieutenants and the gradual
recruitment of his men by Hamas and Islamic Jihad opponents.<br>
<br>
The original Arabic documents reveal just how the Israelis, in an
exercise in black propaganda, have manipulated their true meaning. On
20 March, this year, "Hamdi", one of Yasser Arafat's senior
intelligence officers in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, wrote a
report about a suspected Israeli collaborator called Jihad Ilayan.<br>
<br>
"Further to our letter numbered TK/334/2002 dated 16/3/02 about
the [Israeli] helicopter strike on the chicken farm at Anabta and
after arresting the young man mentioned above, interrogating him and
then releasing him, we wish to inform you that he is now with a
relative named Riyadh Ilayan from the Jalazoan [refugee] camp and he
[Riyadh] works in General Intelligence," Hamdi's report said. The
implications are obvious. Riyadh Ilayan works for Mr Arafat's own
intelligence organisation but his relative Jihad is suspected of
collaboration with Israel.<br>
<br>
Just 17 days earlier, another intelligence report from Tulkarem, this
time written on unheaded notepaper and unsigned, informs Mr Arafat's
men that the al-Aqsa Brigades in the city are planning "an
operation inside Israel". The brigade's modus operandi, says the
document, includes offering suspected Israeli collaborators
forgiveness if they kill Jewish settlers or Israeli soldiers or
intelligence officers. The forthcoming "operation" had been
planned, the report states, by Ghanem Ghanem of Force 17, Hani Abu
Laimoon, "a previous operative of ours", and an unnamed man
who is referred to as a "drug dealer". The same group, the
document notes, had previously arranged the attack on a banqueting
hall in the northern Israeli city of Hadera. It does not mention the
results of that attack: six Israeli civilians dead and another 35
wounded.</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b><br>
These reports - and many others - show just how far Yasser Arafat
had lost control of the militant organisations flourishing among the
Palestinians on the West Bank. But Israel's reaction was to go public
with accounts of their contents that were deliberately misleading and,
in at least one case, untrue. They claimed that the report on Ilayan
detailed his role in a failed suicide attack - when in fact it
recorded his suspected collaboration with Israel - while presenting
the second document as proof that Mr Arafat's own intelligence men
were involved in the al-Aqsa suicide squads. All references to the
drug dealer and the inducement to collaborators to seek forgiveness
were excised.<br>
<br>
The Arabic texts suggest that Israel is fighting against men who have
long ago passed outside Mr Arafat's control, who are better funded
than his Palestinian Authority and whose anti-Israeli attacks can only
occasionally be foiled by Mr Arafat's still-loyal intelligence
officers.<br>
<br>
Typical is the case of Mahmoud Freih, a 17-year-old Palestinian
schoolboy who was born in Kuwait and lived in Tulkarem. A report from
Mr Arafat's "Preventative Security" Office in the city dated
26 December last year informed his intelligence operatives that Freih
had originally been a member of the Democratic Front (a Marxist,
pro-Arafat group) but had since joined Islamic Jihad at the
instigation of a Tulkarem resident called Ayman Mahdawi. Mr Arafat's
men demanded to talk to Freih about his change of allegiance. But he
was already planning to plant a makeshift mine on a road used by
Israeli tanks near Shweikeh. The attack was aborted because of the
presence of Israeli soldiers. So he moved the bomb, ran a wire from
the explosives to a citrus tree in an orchard. Again, his attack
failed. Next day, Freih attended school but returned to the bomb's
location - only to find that the wire had been cut. Waiting for him
there were an official of the Palestinian Authority and an explosives
expert named Samir Abu Naser. He later confessed his activities to Mr
Arafat's men. A later note on the report says Freih was released after
questioning on condition he had been recruited - presumably by the
Palestinian Authority.<br>
<br>
The story of how a 17-year-old schoolboy could involve himself in
Islamic Jihad and head off after classes to try to destroy an Israeli
tank casts a revealing light on the militancy of Palestinian
youth.<br>
<br>
The Israeli account deleted all reference to the role played by the
Palestinian Authority in foiling the attack on the Israelis. The full
text shows clearly that Mr Arafat's men did just what the Israelis
would wish: they stopped the attack and persuaded the boy to change
sides.<br>
<br>
In other cases, however, Mr Arafat's intelligence officers woefully
failed to maintain the loyalty of their own men. Far from controlling
the powerful militias springing up in the West Bank who were intent on
an open conflict with the Israelis, Mr Arafat was simply marginalised.
A long report, dated 4 February, again written on unheaded notepaper,
details for Mr Arafat's intelligence men how the Palestinian security
apparatus in Jenin - along with local members of Mr Arafat's own
CIA-trained General Intelligence operation - had been infiltrated
and bought over with large payments of cash. One of the disloyal
intelligence men - "description: skinny, his teeth are parted
and dirty..." - is now paid by the Islamic Jihad group, the
paper says, "sometimes wears a mask in demonstrations and chants
against the Authority. Another man, an officer in the CIA-trained
Preventative Security known as "Al-Rikh", is described as
"the source of most of the weapons of Jihad and Hamas". The
Fatah movement in Jenin, the document adds, is "playing on both
ropes ... they are with the Authority but, when the Authority arrests
someone, they are against it." Money obviously plays a large part
in the suborning of Mr Arafat's men.<br>
<br>
Israel's attempts to pin Mr Arafat's name to payments for Palestinians
who had committed anti-Israeli attacks rest on a few documents which
bear - or appear to bear - Yasser Arafat's signature. One of
these, dated 19 September last year, is a request for payments of
$2,500 to Raed el-Karni, Ziad Daas and Amar Qadan. The Israeli version
of this document fails to point out that both el-Karni and Qadan were
assassinated by Israeli forces four months later. Daas, who is still
alive, is believed to have planned the Hadera massacre in retaliation
for the Israeli murder of el-Karni. But the Hadera killings took place
on 17 January this year, four months after - not before - the
request to Mr Arafat. In the event, each man received $600 each.
Another document on headed "State of Palestine" paper,
records payments of $800 to 15 men, including Bilal Abu Aamsheh, who
was later accused by Israel of killing an Israeli on 31 May, 2001 and
two border guards on 11 September the same year. Again, the payments
were authorised not after the murders but almost two months
before.</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b><br>
An account of money apparently needed for weapons production carries
the legend "Al-Aqsa Martyrs Troops" on the top of the page.
According to the Israelis, it is addressed to Fouad Shabaki, one of Mr
Arafat's confidants. But on the printed Arabic original, Shabaki's
name does not appear. What the paper does show - yet again - is
the huge amount of money available to the men who run the suicide
squads. It includes $80,000 for lathes, milling machines, welding
machines and wiring. Another paper, entitled "Financial Report"
but again showing no Arafat connections, details costs of bullets and
chemicals for explosive charges and bombs for al-Aqsa. It provides a
startling contrast between the cash available to the suicide squads
and the penny-pinching amounts that Mr Arafat apparently doled
out.<br>
<br>
The documents do provide a rare glimpse into the powerlessness of Mr
Arafat, the infiltration of his subordinates, the attempts to suborn
his own intelligence officers - one of them loyally tells Mr
Arafat's spooks that he has refused advances from Islamic Jihad. The
last thing they prove is that Mr Arafat is behind the wave of suicide
bombings that continued in Israel even yesterday. But that is not what
Mr Sharon wanted. He wants Mr Arafat removed from power.<br>
<br>
So one of the most impotent men in Palestine had to be portrayed as
one of the most all-powerful "terrorists" in the world.<br>
<br>
[END]<br>
<br>
=====<br>
<br>
Thought for the Day:<br>
<br>
"Wait for that wisest of all counselor, time."<br>
<br>
(Pericles, 495-429 B.C.)</b></font><br>
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