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Israel-Palestine
Arafat warns Palestinian resistance will continue
2004-04-15
JPost - Reg Req’d; Train just left station - Paleos and their baggage left seething on platform
The Palestinian people will continue to strive "for an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital," Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said in a press conference in Ramallah Thursday morning.
"Denial is a national theme for Palestine"
Arafat called the conference following Wednesday night’s press conference in the White House in which US President George W. Bush expressed his full support of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal plan from the Gaza Strip and four other West Bank settlements. The Palestinians have a right to return to their homeland, Arafat said, thus countering Bush’s statement that the refugees would be resettled only in the areas of a future Palestinian State and not within the boundaries of Israel.
Another reason the fence is a good idea
Why have a Paleostinian state if you don't want to live there?
Arafat threatened that Palestinian "resistance" will continue, and said that Israel will not achieve security as long as it exists continues the occupation of Palestinian territories and the assassination of Palestinian leaders, referring to the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last month. Prior to Arafat’s press conference, the Palestinian leadership held an emergency seethe fest meeting in the Mukata headquarters in Ramallah to discuss the outcome of the meeting between Bush and Sharon.
Ooooo another Emergency Meeting©
The Organization of Islamic Conference plan to hold an emergency meeting in the near future to discuss the latest developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following the meeting in Washington between Sharon and Bush. Arafat requested the OIC to hold the special meeting prior to the organization’s planned meeting schedueled for next month.
That's a Double-Emergency Meeting, by Gawd!

Posted by:Frank G

#5  From the State Department Daily Press Briefing for Thursday:

QUESTION: Richard, what can you do, or has anything been said about the -- both the influence and negativity of Chairman Arafat? Apparently, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is agreeing with him and there seems to be a split with the moderates and --

MR. BOUCHER: Oh, that's much too tempting, but I won't comment on it. I think we've made clear all along our view of Mr. Arafat, of his failures in the past, his failures to achieve what the Palestinians want, which is to create an apparatus that can control terror and build a state. We hope that other leadership will emerge in the Palestinian community that has the capability, as well as the determination, to create the institutions of a state that can take over in these areas, that can create peace in these areas, and that can negotiate the final status issues with the Israelis.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-04-16 3:48:09 AM  

#4  
Arafat warns Palestinian resistance will continue
And this would be different from it is now how, exactly?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-04-15 8:43:55 PM  

#3  I hope that at the meeting they decide to blow themselves up in protest! Come on guys, make a statement!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2004-04-15 11:51:53 AM  

#2  One cruise missile should do the trick - right through Arafart's window.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-04-15 11:13:46 AM  

#1  Y'see what happens when you "send a message" to the Americans by blowing up their diplomats, Yasser? They get pissed and "send a message" right back. And because we're nice guys at heart, you even get to survive receiving the message.
Posted by: mojo   2004-04-15 10:54:19 AM  

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