How did Arafat deserve the honor of a red carpet treatment in the U.S. and the Nobel prize for peace?

• "I don't know anyone who has as much civilian Jewish blood on his hands as Arafat since the Nazi times ." - Former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, October 1995 • According to the Jewish Press (March 14 1997) a tape of Arafat recorded by the Israeli Secret Service, ordering the execution of 2 American diplomats (Cleo Noel and George Moore) was given to the State Department. Sid Zion in the New York Daily News wrote: "To treat Arafat like a statesman when you have him taped ordering the killing of American diplomats makes one wonder what John Gotti is doing in jail, forget about Jonathan Pollard!" • On the night of March 2, 1973, PLO gunmen pumped 40 bullets into the bodies of the US ambassador to Sudan and two other diplomats held hostage at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum. Almost exactly 24 years later, the man who ordered the killings was warmly received in Washington DC by the leader of the American people. US ambassador Cleo Noel, US charge d'affaires George Curtis Moore, ...  more