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Former Terrorist: Expunging Hatred Will Take a Generation


(Frontpagemag.com) Alyssa A. Lappen and Jerry Gordon - On March 25, former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat mesmerized a Wesleyan University audience as he described an attempted lynching when he and fellow Beit Sahour rioters attacked an Israeli officer. Shoebat worked as a PLO student organizer at Loop College in Chicago. To attract participants, his group advertised events deceptively. In Arabic a poster might announce "a fund raiser for the cause." In English, the same poster would invite students "to a Middle East feast with baklava and lamb." Shoebat said that even if the educational systems that mass manufacture hatred should be unexpectedly dismantled, Jew hatred could not be expunged from PA, Arab, or Muslim societies in less than a generation.
2004-04-07 00:00:00
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