Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:07:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Methven <markmeth-AT-rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: BHA: [fyi] ASSASSINATING ARAFAT 


Relying on a newpaper, and an American one at that,
for honest reporting on conditions of Israeli
apartheid is the most un-CR position that I have seen
yet.  You can bet that if the IDF can't find some
excuse or diversion to take Arafat out as Avineri
states, then the Mosaad or turncoats will take him
out...unofficially.  The effects and consequences will
be the same.  Arafat is a dead-man-walking, yet no one
has the courage to curb the american and european
supported colonial apartheid state.  Apology, indeed!


> > So now it is official: the government of Israel
> has
> > decided to assassinate Yasser Arafat.
> 
> No, it hasn't. Quoting the New York Times:
> 
> "The Israeli foreign minister, Silvan Shalom, has
> already issued a 
> clarification, saying that killing Mr. Arafat is not
> official 
> policy."
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/opinion/18THU1.html
> 
> Since the issue is now a subject of debate, I'd like
> to mention that 
> perhaps Mr. Arafat should apologize for the
> thousands of Jews and 
> Palestinian Arabs he has had killed over the years. 
> 
> Andrew Hagen
> xah-AT-myrealbox.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> > Not any more to "exile". Not any more to "expel or
> > kill". Simply to "remove".
> > 
> > Of course, the intention is not to remove him to
> > another country. Nobody seriously believes that
> Yasser
> > Arafat will raise his hands and allow himself to
> be
> > marched off. He and his men will be killed "during
> > the exchange of fire". This would not be the first
> > time.
> > 
> > Even if it was possible to expel Arafat to another
> > country, nobody in the Israeli leadership would
> dream
> > of doing so. How come? Allow him to make the
> rounds of
> > Putin, Schroeder and Chirac? God forbid. So the
> plan
> > is to remove him to the next world.
> > 
> > Not immediately. The Americans forbid it. It may
> make
> > Bush angry. Sharon does not want to annoy Bush.
> > 
> > Some people comfort themselves with the thought
> that
> > this is just an empty resolution. It is supposed
> to be
> > implemented at a time and in a way yet to be
> decided.
> > But this is wishful thinking, a dangerous comfort.
> The
> > decision legitimizing his assassination is by
> itself a
> > far-reaching political act. It is intended to get
> the
> > Israeli and international public used to the idea.
> > What used to sound like a crazy plot by extreme
> > fanatics now has the air of a legitimate political
> > process, with only the time and mode of
> implementation
> > still open.
> > 
> > Anyone familiar with Ariel Sharon can see how
> things
> > will develop from now on. He will wait for his
> > opportunity. It may come any minute, or after a
> week,
> > a month, a year. He is patient. When he decides to
> do
> > something, he is ready to wait, but he won't
> deviate
> > from his goal.
> > 
> > So when will the planned assassination be carried
> out?
> > When some big suicide attack will take place in
> > Israel, one so big that an extreme reaction will
> be
> > understood by the Americans, too. Or when
> something
> > happens somewhere to divert world attention from
> our
> > country. Or when some dramatic event, something
> > comparable to the destruction of the Twin Towers,
> > makes Bush furious.
> > 
> > What will happen afterwards?
> > 
> > Arab leaders say that there will be "incalculable
> > results". But, in truth, the results can be
> calculated
> > fairly well in advance.
> > 
> > The murder of Arafat will bring about an historic
> > change in the relationship between Israel and the
> > Palestinian people. Since the 1973 war, both
> peoples
> > have been accepting the idea of a compromise
> between
> > the two great national movements. In the Oslo
> > agreement, after a process initiated by Yasser
> Arafat
> > practically alone, the Palestinians gave up 78% of
> the
> > country that was called Palestine before 1948.
> They
> > agreed to set up their state in the remaining 22%.
> > Only Arafat had the moral and political standing
> > necessary to carry the people with him, much as
> > Ben-Gurion was able to convince our people to
> accept
> > the
> > partition plan.
> > 
> > Even in the sharpest crises since then, both
> peoples
> > have remained steadfast in their belief that in
> the
> > end there will be a compromise.
> > 
> > The assassination of Arafat will put an end to
> this,
> > perhaps forever. We shall return to the stage of
> "all
> > or nothing": Greater Israel or Greater Palestine,
> > throwing the Jews into the sea or pushing the
> > Palestinians out into the desert.
> > 
> > The Palestinian Authority will disappear. Israel
> will
> > take over all the Palestinian territories, with
> all
> > the economic and human stress involved. The "de
> luxe
> > occupation", which allowed Israel a free hand in
> > the territories, with the world paying the bills,
> will
> > be over.
> > 
> > Violence will reign supreme. It will be the sole
> > language of both peoples. In Jerusalem and
> Ramallah,
> > Haifa and Hebron, Tulkarm and Tel-Aviv, fear will
> > stalk the streets. Every mother who sends her
> > children to school will be consumed by worry until
> > they come back. Terror on this side and on that
> side,
> > an ever widening spiral of violence, automatic and
> > incessant escalation.
> > 
> > The earthquake will not be limited to the land
> between
> > the Mediterranean and the Jordan. The whole Arab
> world
> > will erupt. Arafat the shahid, the martyr, the
> hero,
> > the symbol, will become an all-Arab, all-Muslim
> > mythological figure. His name will become a
> battle-cry
> > for all revolutionaries from Indonesia to Morocco,
> a
> > slogan for all religious and nationalist
> underground
> > organizations.
> > 
> > The earth will tremble under the feet of all the
> Arab
> > regimes. Compared to Arafat, the ultimate hero,
> all
> > the kings, Emirs and presidents will look unmanly,
> > traitors and mercenaries. If one of them falls,
> the
> > Domino Effect will go into action.
> > 
> > Bloodshed will be universal. Every Israeli
> > target--every airplane, every group of tourists,
> every
> > Israeli institution, will be in constant danger.
> > 
> > The Americans have their reasons for vetoing the
> > assassination. They know that the killing of
> Arafat
> > will shake their position in the Arab and Muslim
> world
> > to the core. The guerilla war that is becoming
> ever
> > wider in Iraq will spread throughout the Arab and
> > other Muslim countries and the world at large.
> Every
> > Arab and Muslim will believe that Sharon acted
> with
> > American consent and encouragement, whatever
> feeble
> 
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