Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat threatened to commit suicide in front of Israeli soldiers who came face to face with him, German weekly magazine Focus, due out Monday, says. The magazine quotes an Israeli soldier who said he was part of a group of soliders surrounding Arafat's West Bank headquarters in Ramallah who found themselves by mistake facing Arafat. He said Arafat pointed a gun to his head and threatened to pull the trigger if the soldiers approached any further.
And they backed off? Makes me doubt the truth of the story. Would have settled a lot, right there - and no Israeli would have pulled the trigger. |