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by Context_free 1923 days ago
Gulf of Tonkin. If you look at Arafat's Wikipedia page it says he was not born in Palestine and died (of course) of venereal disease.

Insofar as how long it goes on, if you look at US WWI propaganda they were talking about German soldiers massacring babies in Belgium (the killing babies lie is a common one - from incubators to Assad gassing babies)