When Innocent is Guilty and Murder is the Truth

When a "Quiet Boy" is Really a Would-Be Murderer

On Friday, August 10th, Ahmad Mahmoud Khatib, a 29 year-old Israeli Arab left his pregnant wife and small child - to commit murder. He entered the Old City of Jerusalem, just a few hundred meters from the location that three major religions call holy, and grabbed a security guard's gun.

Well-trained guards were able to quickly stop his rampage, leaving Khatib dead and as many as 10 innocent bystanders and the guard wounded. Almost immediatly, Khatib's family attempted to suggest that it was a plot and that their son was merely a quiet boy who had done no wrong. Even some Arab witnesses, suggested that Khatib had been shot while already laying on the ground and some even suggested that the guards were at fault.

To set the record straight, Israeli police have released closed circuit video footage of the terrorist incident in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday which clearly shows that the terrorist grabbed a security man's gun, fired on a security guard from close range, and was not the victim of an execution-style gunshot at close range.

Thus a "quiet boy" was really a cold-blooded killer, perpetrating a premeditated attack against the security guards and anyone else he could reach. Initially, many local and international media cooperated with the family, rather than focusin on the brave security guard whose heroism saved the day.

Thanks to carefully placed cameras that operate 24-hours per day, the record has been straight, the security guards not only exhonerated but honored, and Ahmad Mahmoud Khatib to be remembered for his evil actions.

Who/What Killed Yasir Arafat?

When Yasif Arafat was very sick and dying in Paris - so many different people accused Israel of making him sick. His wife, his aides, Palestinian leaders were quick to suggest that Israel had poisoned him...but no poison was found. They said Israel had given him cancer...but no cancer was found. There were hints, even than, that something else had caused his death...it has taken many years, and much secrecy, but the truth has come out...as it is most often likely to do.

Yasir Arafat died...not of anything that Israel did...but of AIDS he contracted under circumstances that are not clear...to say the least. Loyal to the end, his private doctor is willing to ignore all evidence and logic in order to maintain that Israel poisoned Arafat...in addition to the AIDS.

Arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat’s doctor has confirmed the long-circulating rumors
that the PLO chairman had AIDS – though the doctor insists Israel poisoned
Arafat as well, causing his death. Rumors have long circulated in both Israel
and the Palestinian Authority that Arafat’s symptoms prior to his death were
caused by AIDS. Within the PA, Israel has always been accused of poisoning the
PLO chairman.

Now, Arafat’s private doctor has joined other PLO officials in acknowledging that Arafat had the HIV virus, but is holding on to the claim that Israel was responsible for his ultimate demise, in a French hospital.

Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi told the Jordanian Amman News Agency that Arafat
did, in fact, have AIDS – but insisted that the HIV virus was injected into the
chairman’s bloodstream, and not the result of illicit sexual activity

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Senior US intelligence official James J. Welsh, the National Security Agency's former PA analyst, told WorldNetDaily:

"One of the things we looked for when we were intercepting Fatah communications were messages about Ashbal [Lion cub] members who would be called to Beirut from bases outside of Beirut. The Ashbal were often orphaned or abandoned boys who were brought into the organization, ostensibly to train for later entry into Fedayeen fighter units.

Arafat always had several of these 13-15 year old boys in his entourage. We figured out that he would often recall several of these boys to Beirut just before he would leave for a trip outside Lebanon. It proved to be a good indicator of Arafat's travel plans. While Arafat did have a regular security detail, many of those thought to be security personnel - the teenage boys - were actually there for other purposes."

Deny Nadia Abu El Haj Tenure

Nadia Abu El Haj is a candidate for tenure not because she is an accomplished scholar - she is demonstrably not . El Haj work is of the kind that would be regarded as crank scholarship if not for the fashionably post-modern verbiage in which it is dressed.

The premise of her sole book is that the ancient Israelite kingdoms are a "pure political fabrication," invented, not discovered, by dishonest archaeologists. Because such an assertion cannot be proven using evidence, she ignores almost all actual archaeological evidence, turning instead to repeated and unsubstantiated assertions of fact based on conversations she claims to have had with "student volunteers" at archaeological digs and with "archaeologists" she does not name.

Even without the security of tenure El Haj has signed the petition urging Columbia to divest form Israel, and a petition alleging that Israel planned to carry out a brutal and massive ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians at the start of the Iraq war. There was no evidence of such a plan, just as there is no evidence for the absured allegations found in her book. (Such as her allegation that in the year 70, Jerusalem was destroyed not by the Roman Army, but by a Marxist-style rebellion of lower-class Jews targeting upper-class Jews. The book is filled with risible pseudo-history of this type.)

Some of the shortcomings with Abu El Haj's work are outlined in the petition. To sign the petition, please go to: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/barnard/

Further information is available on: www.PaulaSays.com.

I urge you to sign this petition and forward it as widely as possible. While the goal is Barnard and Columbia graduates in particular, please feel free to send it to anyone that you believe will sign it.