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#19 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-17 10:01 PM
Regarding the Palestinians and al-Qaida, immediately below is a photograph of Yasser Arafat donating blood to American victims on 9/11
Ah, the phony "sympathy" symbolism (in English) in the front, reality in the back, outside of camera view (in Arabic, less than a year after Arafat ordered the Second Intifada **):
slate.com - The PLO Rx: Give Blood, Threaten Cameramen, Call Me in the Morning - 2001, September 13
|------- ... the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize recipient's apparent reluctance to countermand a threat made by Arafat's Cabinet secretary, Ahmed Abdel Rahman, to a cameraman who on Sept. 11 filmed for the Associated Press Palestinians in Nablus celebrating the American carnage. According to the AP, Rahman told the AP's Jerusalem bureau that the Palestinian National Authority, of which Arafat is president, "cannot guarantee the life" of the cameraman if the footage airs.
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Re actual symbolic "giving blood":
douglasstarr.com - Bad Blood: The 9/11 Blood Donation Disaster - New Republic, 2002-07-29 {PDF, 4pgs}
|------- ... Faced with an unprecedented turnout, the American Red Cross and other organizations overcollected so massively that they had to discard thousands of gallons of the perishable liquid. The donor crush caused a cascade of problems: Money was wasted; sub-par blood was collected; and other components, such as platelets, were neglected. Even worse was the general loss of faith in America's blood-collection system that produced a slump in donations from which we're still trying to recover. ...
... Dr. Jones reacted typically for a blood banker as the tragedy unfolded. "... We're not going to need any blood for this..." Nonetheless, he immediately dispatched 600 units of red cells to area hospitals, the bulk of which was never used. As the lines of donors snaked around the block, he put out an announcement: The center would only take blood from people with type O, "universal" donors; ... centers throughout the city began running short on supplies like blood bags and testing reagents. ...
... So powerful was the symbolic value of blood that other nations offered to give - a well-meaning gesture but something American health officials could never allow. India offered to send blood, even though its supplies are neither adequate nor safe. Wire services ran an unintentionally ludicrous photo of Yasir Arafat donating blood in Gaza ...
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** www.cfr.org - Arafat and Second Intifada - January 4, 2013
|------- ... the role of Yasir Arafat in the second intifada, the violent Palestinian uprising that followed on the failure of Camp David in 2000. The PLO and Palestinian Authority (PA) have long denied that Arafat was behind the violence, instead calling the second intifada a spontaneous uprising. ...
Now there is an additional source: Arafat's widow, Suha. ...
The debate over Arafat's role should be over. Many Palestinian leaders have always understood it to be a phony, in any event. ... But meanwhile, there should be no doubt about the origin of the second intifada: it happened when Yasir Arafat decided that more violence was useful to him. That case is closed.
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