Comments on: Slackman flacks for terrorists http://www.yourish.com/2009/02/26/6655 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:08:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2009/02/26/6655/comment-page-1#comment-36117 Alex Bensky Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:09:15 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=6655#comment-36117 You are criticizing Arafat unfairly, Soccerdad. Remember the guiding principle: From the Jews, deeds; from the Arabs, words." Arafat said he was going to renounce terrorism and said he was going to drop the clauses from the Palestine National Covenant that called for terrorism and for the goal of destroying Israel. That's all he had to do and once he said he was going to do all that, it was incumbent on Israel to grant him serious concessions. The fact that he never actually did any of that stuff is immaterial, since all he had to do was say he would do it. You are criticizing Arafat unfairly, Soccerdad. Remember the guiding principle: From the Jews, deeds; from the Arabs, words.”

Arafat said he was going to renounce terrorism and said he was going to drop the clauses from the Palestine National Covenant that called for terrorism and for the goal of destroying Israel. That’s all he had to do and once he said he was going to do all that, it was incumbent on Israel to grant him serious concessions.

The fact that he never actually did any of that stuff is immaterial, since all he had to do was say he would do it.

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