Arafat regime blamed for poverty
In "Celebrating Passover, freedom and peace in Israel," authors Laura Kaplan and Julia Salzman decry the conditions in which Palestinians live and call for Princeton to "divest" itself from Israel. Yet it is not Israel's fault that Palestinians live in such conditions where they have to face "on a daily basis, unemployment, poverty, humiliation, torture and death."
Had Yasser Arafat seriously attempted to make peace at Camp David or Taba, the occupation would be over by now. Instead, he chose to start the second Intifada. Before the second Intifada, Palestinians living in the West Bank had an adjusted per-capita income higher than that of their brethren in surrounding Arab nations. Since the Palestinian Authority does not police terrorism in its own territories, Israel is forced to do so. Unfortunately, this occasionally leads to the death of innocent Palestinian civilians. The citizens of Israel also have the right not to be blown up by suicide bombers.
Ms. Kaplan and Ms. Salzman are misdirecting their anger: they should be condemning the terrorist regime of Yasser Arafat, whose actions have directly lead to Palestinian poverty, unemployment, humiliation and death. Their allegations of torture are simply unfounded. Elliott Marc Davis Cornell University
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