Martin Indyk and Irwin Cotler |
WORLD ORT
Arafat Takes A
Bite Of
Israel’s Secret Weapon
By Tim Boxer
 AYBE
what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should do is dispatch a
kosher hot dog stand to Ramalah to rein in Yasir Arafat and
his terror hordes.
The Palestinian leader
loves kosher hot dogs. This was apparent back in 1999 when the
late David Hermelin, Clinton’s ambassador to Norway,
arranged a summit at his home for President Bill Clinton,
Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Arafat.
Martin Indyk,
the former U.S. ambassador to Israel, told the story at a World
ORT dinner at the Grand Hyatt in New York. The organization,
dedicated to teaching youngsters a trade in the former Soviet
Union and other countries, held its general assembly in the U.S.
for the first time in its 124-year history.
Indyk said that Hermelin
airlifted French fries and non-cholesterol buns from his native
Detroit.
Richard Goldstone, Martin Indyk and
Lord David Young |
When Arafat spied
Hermelin’s daughter videotaping the event, he broke out in his
mannered grin and pronounced, “Delicious, delicious,
delicious.”
“She now has a film of
Arafat eating a delicious kosher hot dog,” Indyk said.
On a more serious note
Indyk, who helped Clinton facilitate the Israel-Jordan peace
treaty, warned that once a Palestinian state is formed in Gaza and
the West Bank, it would expand naturally, through demographics, to
include Jordan, already populated with a majority of Palestinians.
“Once Israel’s fence
is completed next year,” he said, “the pressure to move all
settlements behind the fence will be inexorable.
“Israel’s future will
be in becoming a city state from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and Haifa.
I hope it won’t be a Sparta, but an Athens.”
Other speakers at the
dinner included Richard Goldstone, retired justice of the
Supreme Court of South Africa; Irwin Cotler, Canada’s minister
of justice and attorney general, Lord David Young of
Graffham, past president, and Sir Maurice Hatter, the
incoming president. |
