Israel Today reports that top PA official Mohammed Dahlan has revealed that the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat “always supported terrorism.” According to Dahlan, after Arafat publicly condemned terrorism to secure concessions under the Oslo accords, he continued to back terror actions behind the scenes. As Dahlan, who is currently a key advisor to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, put it, “Arafat would condemn [terror] operations by day while at night he would do honorable things.” Arafat’s duplicity should not be surprising to anyone who has followed Palestinian politics, but it is a little disturbing that one of the top advisers to the so-called “moderate” PA not only celebrates Arafat’s duplicity, but also characterizes terror operations as “honorable.”
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Tevi Troy is a senior fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute and a senior scholar at Yeshiva University’s Straus Center. He is the author of The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry.
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