To Begin, Arafat in Beirut was Hitler in his Berlin bunker. Indeed, Abba Eban ridiculed Begin for behaving “as if Israel were a kind of disarmed Costa Rica and the PLO was Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great, and Attila the Hun all wrapped into one.”
在贝京眼中，贝鲁特的阿拉法特无异于柏林地堡中的希特勒。 实际上，阿巴·埃班曾嘲笑贝京“把以色列当作被解除武装的哥斯达黎加，而把巴勒斯坦解放组织看成拿破仑·波拿巴、亚历山大大帝和匈奴王阿提拉的联合体。”