Why does Ralph he Red Nader support Arafats terrorism?
James Henry BrookesNews.Com Friday 27 June 2003 “I’m shocked! Shocked!”, exclaimed the cynical Captain Louis Renault, but only after the gallant Major Heinrich Strasser alerted him to the depraved goings on in the backroom of Rick’s Caf. Nader’s public support for Arafat’s terrorism elicited a very Renault-like response from some members of the mainstream-media. But anyone who has examined, if only briefly, St Ralphs history will know just how extreme his leftwing politics really are: and the extreme left is deeply hostile to Israel’s existence. Once you have grasped that fact, it becomes plain why, despite the evidence, he blames Israel for terrorist outrages while ignoring the generous concessions it made to the Palestinians. The picture becomes even clearer once one realises that Nader is closely linked to the Washington-based IPS (Institute for Policy Studies), a Marxist think tank that strongly supported the PLO. Come to think of it, I doubt if there is not one leftwing terrorist