adam graff

Arafat backed Saddam’s rape of Kuwait. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians paid for it in blood and exile. The world never cared and has completely forgotten. Arafat went to Baghdad and stood publicly with Saddam after the invasion. In January 1991, he rallied the mob: if the Americans want war, “then I say welcome, welcome, welcome to war… Iraq and Palestine… [will stand] together, side by side.” When the Americans struck, Saddam fired Scuds at Tel Aviv while the United States forced Israel to absorb the attacks on its civilians without responding. Under Iraqi occupation, Kuwaitis were systematically raped (thousands of women), tortured with electric drills and acid, hanged, beaten, and executed. The country was stripped bare. Palestinians in Kuwait were widely viewed as collaborators. After liberation, Kuwait expelled them. A community of roughly 350,000–400,000 was reduced by about 90% within months. More than 300,000 were thrown out of the country. And yet, there were no endless UN resolutions. No academic industry of “Nakba” books. No campus protests. No media saturation calling it ethnic cleansing. Arafat later claimed what Kuwait did was “worse than what Israel did.” The world shrugged. A massive, deliberate expulsion of Palestinians by an Arab state (carried out against the entire community regardless of any alleged collaboration) happened in full view of the modern world. The response was total silence. The same people who turn every consequence of Arab-initiated wars against Jews into the eternal crime of the century treated this one as if it never happened. That is the real hierarchy of refugee suffering. That is the lie at the heart of eternal Palestinian victimhood. It’s not about concern for Palestinian lives. It’s about demonizing and delegitimizing the world’s only Jewish state.