In what is considered a surprising development, the IDF was seen bulldozing a monument dedicated to ex PLO terrorist head Yasser Arafat in Tulkarm, a city in the western part of Judea and Samaria, currently occupied by PA and Hamas terrorists.
Second to Jenin, Tulkarm has been a hotbed for Arab terrorism during the current Israel-Hamas war. Given Arafat’s special status as the father of “palestinian” nationhood, why did the IDF give the order now to destroy the monument made to remember him?
The reason cannot be more obvious. The destruction of the monument to Arafat in Tulkarm like the capturing of the Hamas headquarters in Gaza City, is a message that Arafat is not only dead, but his cause is dead as well.
What cause is that?
Arafat gave birth to the idea of a nation called “palestine” when no nation like that ever existed before. This lie has given rise to a new form of global antisemitism empowering Hamas and other genocidal terror groups like Hezbollah. Today’s destruction of the Arafat monument is more than symbolism – it is the destruction of “palestine” the idea. When the idea dies – so too the hope that “palestine” itself will ever arise.