Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director of the New York-based Center for the Study of Corruption and the Rule of Law (and the author of the forthcoming book Funding Evil), explores Yasser’s enormous monetary stash in this guest commentary column for The National Review. An excerpt:
Experts estimate that the $1.3 billion Arafat controls could feed three million Palestinians for a year, buy 1,000 mobile intensive-care units, fund ten hospitals for a decade, and still leave $585 million to fund other social projects.But firsthand testimonies by disaffected Palestinians, and volumes of documents found in his headquarters in Ramallah, leave no doubt that Arafat controls all PA money. And since this goes back to the 1960s, the amount of money that passed through his hands is staggering.
It comes as no surprise, of course, that Arafat is a greedy, murderous crook (the only “job” he’s ever held, afterall, is “terrorist organization leader”), but Ehrenfeld’s column further reveals that “Arafat also controls a growing criminal industry — a blooming counterfeit industry that includes hundreds of thousands of CDs and DVDs, movies, designer cloths, schoolbooks, and even cosmetics” — the proceeds from which help fund terrorist attacks on falafel stands and discos.
Comment by Dean Esmay on 8/19 @ 12:46 pm #
Since the Soviets are no longer around to fund him, and the Socialist experiment in disarray everywhere, why should we surprised when he goes from being just a terrorist to a more entrepreneurial form of organized criminal? %-)
Comment by Arik Sheinerman on 10/5 @ 4:50 pm #
I wonder how much money Bush has.
Sad, when you think of all the millions of people in the USA without even basic medical care.
Interesting read – http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/hedges.asp
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