Arafat Developed Gaza Missile Capability

Who would have thought that Yassir Arafat would renege on multiple agreements pledging non-violence and demilitarization?

PLO Official Abbas Zaki: When the Palestinian Authority returned to Gaza [in 1994], Hamas did not have even 20 guns, weapons, and Fatah did not have even 100 guns. Abu Ammar, Allah's mercy upon him, flooded everybody with weapons, and sent our experts to produce missiles and weapons for whoever who wanted to fight. One of our people, General Abd Al-Mu'ti Al-Sab'awi, was martyred when he was making a rocket for them and it went off. He was developing missiles for them. Unfortunately, they [Hamas] have turned their backs on us now.

Note the admission that Arafat "flooded everybody with weapons," belying the taqiyya that the various terror groups were at odds.

At the time, advocates of the Oslo Peace Process were using the argument "given how bad things are now, how could it get any worse?" Imagine a Gaza with less than 100 pistols in terrorist hands...