ABSTRACT
The process of demonization of Zionism in the Arab/Muslim world had been embraced from the very beginnings of its inception, since it was regarded as a rival to Arab nationalism for the takeover of Palestine as the land of the Jews, at the same time that Arabs and Muslims also regarded it as an Arab homeland and part and parcel of the Islamic patrimony. During the forty years of Yasser Arafat's leadership of the Palestinian movement, since his rise in the 1960s until his death in 2004, with few firm achievements on the ground and after having missed many opportunities to settle with Israel and to obtain a state for his misfor-tuned people, the Palestinians occupied the frontline of the fighting Revolutionaries. Naturally, the deepening of the gap between the rival parties within the Palestinians also produced the escalation of the anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish rhetoric among them.
