Only two days after a speech in which he called for an end to some terrorism against Israel, PLO leader Yasser Arafat encouraged the opposite to a crowd in Ramallah yesterday. "All the Palestinians are martyrs," he cried, "and are all Muhammad al-Dura!" Al-Dura was a 12-year-old boy whose death in the early days of the Oslo War became a symbol for the Palestinians; they claimed that he was killed by Israeli cross-fire, but some evidence clearly showed that he was in fact killed by Arab shots.

Arafat also said, "This brave people will continue to protect and defend our holy land with its blood and soul, and all its property... We will meet next time in Jerusalem, because we are fighting in order to bring the victory to our prophets, every baby, every child, every man, every woman, and every elder person, and all the youth - we will sacrifice ourselves for our holy places, and we will establish our dominion over them. We are prepared to give 70 of our martyrs for every martyr of theirs in this campaign..."

It was further reported that Arafat made some other inflammatory comments against Israel on another recent occasion. "The Oslo Agreement is a Trojan horse with which to get senior Palestinian leaders into Israel," he told a closed forum in Ramallah a few days ago. Israel government and security officials are presently studying the material in which Arafat is quoted as having said, "The intifada that the Palestinians began last year represents their coming out of the insides of the horse." The operative interpretation is that Arafat's conciliatory speech of three days ago is of no significance, and that the attacks against Israel should continue.

Feisal Husseini, too, called the Oslo Accords a Trojan horse. In his last interview, given to Egypt's Al-Arabi newspaper, Husseini said, "The [ancient] Greek Army was unable to break into Troy... [Following the Greeks' apparent defeat,] the people of Troy climbed on top of their city walls and could not find any traces of the Greek army, except for a giant wooden horse. They cheered and celebrated, thinking that the Greek troops had been routed and had left behind only a harmless wooden horse. So they opened the gates of the city and brought in the wooden horse. We all know what happened next… Had the U.S. and Israel not [thought], before Oslo, that all that was left of the Palestinian National movement and the Pan-Arab movement was a wooden horse called Arafat or the PLO, they would never have opened their fortified gates and let it inside their walls... The Oslo accords were a Trojan horse; the strategic goal is the liberation of Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea..."