The Trojan Horse
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Thursday, March 7, 2002
By Joseph Farah© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
Why can't more people see it? Why doesn't the whole world get it?
I'm talking about Yasser Arafat's "Trojan Horse" approach to the destruction of the state of Israel.
Maybe too many people are not reading any more. Perhaps they have just forgotten, or are unfamiliar with, Homer's "Odyssey" and the tale of how Troy was overtaken by stealth.
Troy was a walled and well-defended city. The Greeks attacked Troy for nine years, but could not overcome its defenses. Ulysses hatched a plan to construct a huge giant horse that could conceal 100 men. After sealing themselves in, the rest of the Greeks sailed away.
In the morning, the Trojans celebrated their victory. Despite warnings from a priest to beware of Greeks bearing gifts, the people of the city wanted to claim the horse as their victory prize. They even tore down some of their walls to get the horse – and the unseen enemy – inside the gates.
When Ulysses and his men disembarked from the Trojan Horse, they burned the city, killed the king and robbed Troy of all its wealth.
For more than 30 years, Arafat has been following the same ploy in his conduct toward Israel. When he talks of peaceful coexistence between his Palestinian state and the Jewish state, he is building a Trojan Horse. And just like the people of Troy, many Israelis and much of the rest of the world want to believe peace is at hand.
Historical precedent means nothing. Terrorist act followed by terrorist act means nothing. Warnings from the priests and prophets mean nothing.
Even when Arafat explains his Trojan Horse strategy – in English, no less – many people don't hear it.
This Trojan Horse ploy by Arafat is the subject of a dramatic and compelling new documentary by some French filmmakers – one that uses the actual words of Arafat and his henchmen to make the undeniable case that the establishment of a Palestinian state is only the first act of a two-act play. Arafat is the proverbial Greek bearing gifts.
This time, however, it won't be 100 men disembarking from a big horse. It will be 30,000 armed Palestinian "policemen" inside the walls of the city – a city, by the way, already surrounded by a billion hostile neighbors.
"The Trojan Horse" documentary is one of a pair produced in France – with more on the way. A companion video, "Israel and the War of Images" is equally compelling and emotionally gripping – showing for once the real human cost of the ongoing terror war that has consumed the Jewish state ever since the Egyptian Arafat emerged as the self-proclaimed leader-for-life of "Palestine."
Together they show that nothing has changed since Arafat laid out the Trojan Horse strategy in English in a speech in South Africa in 1994.
"I don't consider the [Oslo] agreement any more than the agreement which was signed by our prophet Mohammed and the Qurayish," he said.
What is Arafat talking about? It's the model of Hudayblya. Before Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David accords, he first sought the counsel of an Islamic leader in Cairo. He wanted to know if there was any precedent to make peace with the infidel. He was told about the peace pact Mohammed made at the small oasis of Hudayblya – between Mecca and Medina.
In the early years of Islam, Mohammed found himself fighting a losing battle. So he signed a 10-year peace agreement with the Qurayish tribe in Mecca. Two years later, when his forces were stronger and the Meccans were living securely off their guard, Mohammed marched into the city and captured it.
In Arabic, there is a concept known as Takiya – it is the right within Islam to fake peace when you are weak, so that you can wait for better timing to conquer your enemy. There's a famous Arab saying: "When your enemy is strong, kiss his hand and pray that it will be broken one day."
And that's the game Arafat is playing today. If you have any doubts, you can see it and hear it for yourselves with your own ears from the mouths of Arafat and his top officials and spokesmen. Over and over again, in these two compelling videos, available only through the WorldNetDaily online store – ShopNetDaily – Palestinian leaders explain that their ultimate goals remain a Palestine from "the sea to the river" – meaning from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.
Can facts change people's perceptions? Is it too late to reverse course? Is the enemy already inside the gates? Will the people of Israel make the same mistake the ancient Meccans and the people of Troy made? Remember Hudayblya.
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Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com and writes a daily column. Get an autographed, first-edition copy of Joseph Farah's 1996 book, "This Land Is Our Land," published by St. Martin's Press.
