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Middle East
Exploder groups plotting to dump Yasser
2002-03-07
  • Palestinian groups expected to participate in the attempt to depose Mr. Arafat are said to include Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Hamas and PFLP-General Command. The new organization would include members of Mr. Arafat's mainstream Fatah movement, according to the Saudi daily Al-Watan, which has reported on the scheme. The newspaper said the organizers are motivated by concern that the Palestinian Authority (PA) "is gradually collapsing" under Israeli pressure, and that the Jewish state may succeed in replacing it with "a Palestinian leadership subservient to it."
    The collapse hasn't been a pretty picture, but Yasser's departure will actually clear the air. His immediate successor (or two or three) will probably be worse, but not having the inertia of the large number of years Yasser drags around with him, they'll be a little more disposable. With a little judicious planning, the Israelis (and the US and probably the Jordanians) could get the fundos and the Marxists fighting each other to see who's in charge to the point where the bodies are piled up nine deep. The thing to be afraid of is another hard boy like Yasser grabbing onto power with both hands and holding it for the next 35 years.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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