This deal was made because of Iran, but
on the other hand I am happy that Bibi finally overturned the policy which the
KGB managed to impose on the Middle East by creating the PLO in the 1960s, so
in a way this is a personal answer to Putin as ex KGB.
Brainchild of the KGB
As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director
of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived
at the time the KGB was creating "liberation front"
organizations throughout the Third World. Others included the
National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with the help from Ernesto
"Che" Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia,
created in 1965 with the help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB's most
enduring achievement.
In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of
422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet
blueprint for a Palestinian National Charter - a
document drafted in Moscow – and made Ahmad Shukairy, the KGB's agent of
influence, the first PLO chairman. The Romanian intelligence service was
given responsibility for providing the PLO with logistics support. Except for
the arms, which were supplied by the KGB and East German Stasi, everything
according to Ion Pacepa, "came from Bucharest. Even the PLO uniforms and
the PLO stationery were manufactured in Romania free of charge, as a
'comradely help'. During those years, two Romanian cargo planes filled with
goodies for the PLO landed in Beirut every week."
The PLO Discovers "Wars of national
Liberation"
As early as 1964, Arafat had sent Abu
Jihad (later the leader of the PLO's military operations) to North Vietnam to
study the strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfare as waged by Ho Chi Minh. At
this time, Fatah also translated the writings of North Vietnam's General Nguyen
Giap, as well as the works of Mao and Che Guevara, into Arabic.
Arafat was particularly struck by Ho Chi
Minh's success in mobilizing left-wing sympathizers in Europe and the
United States, where activists on American campuses, enthusiastically followed the
line of North Vietnamese operatives, had succeeded in reframing the Vietnam War
from a Communist assault on the south to a struggle for national liberation.
Ho's chief strategist, General Giap, made it clear to Arafat and his lieutenants
that in order to succeed, they too needed to redefine the terms of their
struggle. Giap's counsel was simple but profound: the PLO needed to
work in a way that concealed its real goals , permitted strategic deception,
and gave the appearance of moderation: "Stop talking about annihilating
Israel and instead turn your terror war into a struggle for human rights. Then
you will have the American people eating out of your hand."
History Upside Down by David Meir-Levi, page 28
