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Yasser calls on Palestinians to cease and desist |
2002-01-26 |
Yasser? They ain't listening. This is starting to look a little like Hitler issuing orders to non-existent divisions while the Russians were knocking at his door. the sad truth is that hostilities could and would end in 24 hours if that is what Arafat wanted. He still controls over 40,000 armed militia/police that could easily wipe out/tie down the Hamas and Islamic Jihad active cells. Arafat doesn't wan't to. Peace is not in his plans. Why rule over a tinpot thord world country when you can fantasize about keeping the whole world focussed on your shitty little mess. Shame on the so-called Arab leadership who stand by and acquiesce in this Arafatian farce as their brothers suffer. Must be a line or two in the Koran about that. I don't think that's the case anymore. I don't think he can stop what he's started. There's just the glimmer of a policy turn here; very optimistically, Arafat could be laying the groundwork for a civil war. How he'd fight it would be the interesting part. (What if that's why he was arming up? Hmmm. I'm not ready to accept that explanation, but I also can't see how he would have pursued an escalation with Israel he must know he'd lose badly.) |
Posted by:Fred Pruitt |