The Arafat Legacy

One man corrupts a whole society for generations…

The notion of a jailed, mass-murdering terrorist running for president is ludicrous. In America.

That’s not the case, though, in the Palestinian Authority. A recent poll finds the two top candidates in the Palestinian presidential race, Abu Mazen and Marwan Barghouti, running neck and neck. Like Ramzi Yousef, Marwan Barghouti is, in fact, in jail—a convicted terrorist, proved in court to have blood on his hands.

(Abu Mazen is a strange enough candidate. In addition to writing a whole book maintaining that the Holocaust is a Zionist fraud,he was Yasser Arafat’s right-hand man for four decades, planning and funding attacks.)

None of this, of course, stops the enthusiasts of the “new, post-Arafat era” from perceiving buds of peace sprouting everywhere.

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Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016. In 2023, The Gateway Pundit received the Most Trusted Print Media Award at the American Liberty Awards.

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