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On the recordMay 14, 2002
The violation of law and the agreement represented by these weapons really goes a long way towards showing the attitude of the Palestinians toward the agreement that they made and their intention for their future use in the Middle East. The other thing that was quite persuasive to our group were the documents that the Israelis seized from the Palestinian Authority offices in the West Bank during the military incursion. Documents were seized in Arabic showing how the terrorists are funded, showing how the Saudis make payments to the terrorists and the families of terrorists, showing how Yassar Arafat's organization submits memos to him recommending that payments be made to a list of what they euphemistically call 'freedom fighters.' That would be in American English 'terrorists.' And how Yassar Arafat signs off on those memos asking for certain levels of funding. In most cases he reduces the payments to be made to each individual, but there are signed documents showing to my satisfaction certainly, that Arafat has been directing terror.
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Hon. Joseph M. Hoeffel
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the implications of seized documents and weapons related to Palestinian leadership and terrorism.

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