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Middle East
Yasser still stuck in his hole
2002-03-31
  • Palestinian duce Yasser Arafat remained penned up in his office Saturday, surrounded by Israeli troops and trying to keep up his staff's morale. In an interview from his West Bank compound in Ramallah with Fox News Channel's Rita Cosby Saturday evening, Arafat said, "We will never surrender."
    He doesn't really think he's toast. But I don't think he's thought out a next move, either...
    Arafat said it was ridiculous for Israel to demand that he crack down on terrorist attacks and militant extremists given his current circumstances. "This is clear ... how a person in complete seige haven't (sic) a telephone to speak or contact or give orders," he said. "This telephone which I'm speaking with you, I don't know when it will be cut."
    It was apparently ridiculous for them to demand that he crack down before his pee-bug was in the wringer, too. So when would be a good time?
    When asked if Arafat feared for his life, he said the "problem is not my life, the problem is what our people are facing, what are (sic) our authority is facing, what the whole region is facing."
    He doesn't think they have the nerve to take him out. If they did, he'd be a hero to the boomers. He's counting on that. Really counting on that.

  • Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, speaking on Israel Radio as the fighting took place, said: "Our decision not to harm Arafat still stands. There's no change. We don't want to turn it into a world war, into a regional war. We don't want to turn the entire world against us."
    As long as they have the lily-livered Peres they won't...
    The Israelis apparently are doing their worst to Arafat: cutting him off from phoning up CNN whenever he wanted to pitch about how malevolent Sharon's policies are. I wonder if this is just by cutting Arafat off from new phone batteries or by actively jamming the phone links.
    Posted by Tom Roberts 3/31/2002 12:24:38 PM
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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