December 19, 1997
A senior official of Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority
has charged that Israelis are distributing food products contaminated with
“mad cow disease” among the Palestinian Arabs. The Zionist Organization of
America (ZOA) is calling on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to “specifically
demand that Arafat retract and discontinue this kind of anti-Israel
propaganda.”
Maher al-Dasouqi, director of the Palestinian Authority’s Committee
for Consumer Protection, declared: “Citizens must be vigilant regarding
chocolate from England, especially ‘Cadbury’s,’ which is very popular in
Palestinian markets, since the milk used in the production of all types of
[Cadbury’s] chocolate was infected with ‘mad cow disease.’ The sale of
this chocolate is forbidden in England, but it was smuggled into the Palestinian
regions by Israeli merchants…” Dasouqi’s allegation was published in the
PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on December 8, 1997.
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “Yasir Arafat and the
PA seem to have learned well from other dictators, who understood that the
bigger the lie, and the more frequently it is repeated, the more people will
believe it. The Clinton administration must insist that Arafat retract and
discontinue this kind of anti-Israel propaganda.”
Other anti-Israel libels circulated by Arafat and the PLO/PA:
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“Israel Poisons Arab Food.” Abd al-Fatah Hamid, director of the
Control and Inspection Department of the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry
of Supplies, told the Palestinian Arab newspaper Al Ayam (Oct.29, 1997) that
Israel is distributing “spoiled goods and food supplies” among the Palestinian Arabs.
“This is one of Israel’s means in its war against Palestinian society,” Hamid asserted. -
“Israel is Trying to Harm Arab Males’ Virility.” Abdel Hamid
al-Qudsi, Deputy Minister of the PLO’s Palestinian Authority Ministry of
Supplies, declared: “Israel is distributing food containing material that
causes cancer and hormones that harm male virility and other spoiled food
products in the Palestinian Authority’s territories in order to poison and
harm the Palestinian population. We absolutely feel that it is an organized
plan and conspiracy which is under the auspices of the Israel Defense Forces
this is a planned and initiated war against the Palestinian people.” (Yediot
Ahronot, June 25, 1997) - “Israel Infects Arab Children with AIDS.” “The Israeli
authorities infected by injection 300 Palestinian children with the HIV virus during
the years of the intifada.” (Nabil Ramlawi, the PLO representative to the
United Nations in Geneva, Jerusalem Post, March 17, 1997)
