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| Middle East |
| Yasser expects Israeli-Palestinian conflict to worsen |
| 2002-11-01 |
| In an interview with Associated Press Television News, Yasser Arafat predicted the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would worsen now that Sharon depends on far-right and religious parties to cling to power. Too bad, Yasser. You had your chance... Arafat added he remains committed to achieving peace with Israel despite two years of fighting and said he considers suicide attacks against Israeli civilians to be immoral. "I say to the Israelis, come tomorrow and sit at the negotiation table," said the Palestinian leader. "Let's go back to the peace of the brave." "Did you hear something, Moshe?" "It's nothing, Avner. Somebody burped." "It sounded so... so... irrelevant!" Arafat conveyed Israel's repeated killing of Palestinian activists accused of "terrorism" has sabotaged his efforts to reach agreements with the armed groups to end attacks on Israelis. He pledged to work to end such attacks if Israel withdrew from the Palestinian areas that it has occupied in the past two years. "Why don't you pull out, and we'll bring the Americans and we'll work together to end such attacks?" he said, addressing Israel's government. Asked if he considered the attacks immoral, Arafat replied: "Yes, they are immoral. We condemn these attacks all the time." "We have a form we us. We just fill in the location and time and hand it out to the press. Saves lots of time." Warning against a U.S. strike on Iraq, Arafat said, "I hope that this war will not take place because this will lead to a catastrophe in the whole area of the Middle East." One man's catastrophe is another man's cause for celebration... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
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| Posted by: Aracona 2002-11-01 11:14:22 |