The Israeli prime minister has announced that he will not permit Yasser Arafat to attend the Arab summit conference in Beirut, stating that he did not do what is conducive to reducing acts of violence last week. Israeli radio quoted Sharon as saying during a session for the mini Israeli Cabinet that Vice President Dick Cheney did not meet with Arafat because Arafat did not carry out even one condition of those laid out by Cheney. On the other hand, the Israeli defense minister Benjamin Bin Eliazer said in the same session that Israel has decided to pursue the policy of self control towards the executors of the operations against Israel and this, as he claimed, stems from the Israeli desire to provide a success for the current mission of the US envoy Anthony Zinni.
Shoulda let him go and then not let him come back.One can always hope...
Posted by Anonymous 3/26/2002 2:28:19 PM |