When he comes to the West and speaks in English, he would not dream of uttering such calumnies. He speaks of peace. A visit to the Holocaust museum fits perfectly in his double game. But that is the wrong standard. What disqualifies Arafat from being honored at the Holocaust Museum is not that he has yet to make peace but that he does not put a stop to the Jew-hatred that the Palestinian Authority is propagating.
Adversaries are welcome at shrines of Jewish suffering.
Purveyors of antisemitism are not. It is not hard to understand why Arafat would want to use the Holocaust Museum as a backdrop to his lifelong campaign against Israel. President Clinton's formal invitation of the world's principal terrorist, Yassir Arafat, to visit the White House is illegal under our domestic law. Therefore, justice will have to yield to peace. However, a realistic peace can never be founded upon injustice Most Palestinian rallies include the burnings of American and Israeli flags.