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Middle East
Arafat revives spirit of Oslo. Really.
2003-09-13
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has said an Israeli threat to exile him is meant to eradicate the self-rule Palestinians won in peace deals a decade ago.
Actually, I'd say it was meant to get rid of Yasser, but who'm I to say?
"The danger here concerns Israel's determination to cancel the Palestinian partner and the Palestinian Authority," Arafat told visiting diplomats at his battered headquarters in the West Bank city of RamAllah.
"Dominique! Yasser is in great danger! We must dispatch diplomats to protect him!"
"Immediately, mon president!"
Arafat said the peace process was "facing the most critical time since the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993 ... but I reaffirm before you that despite the incitement and Israeli threats, the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership are committed to the peace process.
"Yes! We are determined that the entire Middle East, the entire world in fact, will be dumped into the peace processor and pureed!"
"No one can deport me from my homeland, and the homeland of my fathers and forefathers," Arafat, 74, said as thousands demonstrated for the third day running to show support for him both on his own doorstep and elsewhere in the occupied territories. Saturday was the 10th anniversary of Oslo's signing, which Palestinians hailed as the first step to independence. Arafat's co-signatory, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist two years later.
See how far we've come in only ten short years? Just think where we can be in fifty!
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#4  Actually, when Israel finally gets around to grinding him into the dust, I personally hope there isn't enough left for anyone to bury, anywhere. I think the Israelis should dig up the dirt Arafart is ground into and flush it into the Red Sea somewhere, just so there won't be anything anywhere left for the Paleos to rally around.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-9-13 5:46:45 PM  

#3  Yasser's obviously gone totally senile. He's an Egyptian, born in Egypt to Egyptian parents. His homeland is Egypt, not Israel. Duh!

Remember the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al Husseini, a nazi collaborator, who broadcasted propaganda in Germany, and went to Bosnia to bless muslim waffen-SS units he personnally helped to create, thus actively participating in the fianl solution?
From "whitewashing the palestinian leadership part II" : After Hajj Amin al-Husseini's death in 1974, the relatives of this fascist anti-Semite continued to wield decisive influence in Palestinian organizations. Case in point: Yasser Arafat. As Howard Sachar explains (my emphasis): “The Fatah leader’s actual name was Abd al-Rahman abd al-Rauf Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship with the discredited ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini.”[17]
[...]
Here is what Arafat told an interviewer from the pro-PLO, London-based, Arabic-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat. His comments were picked up by a leading Palestinian daily:

Interviewer: “I have heard voices from within the [Palestinian] Authority in the past few weeks, saying that the reforms are coordinated according to American whims…”

Arafat: “We are not Afghanistan…We are the Mighty People. Were they able to replace our hero Hajj Amin al-Husseini? ...There were a number of attempts to get rid of Hajj Amin, whom they considered an ally of the Nazis. But even so, he lived in Cairo, and participated in the 1948 war, and I was one of his troops.”[18]

Arafat is an egyptian, was born in Egypt, studied in Egypt, lived in Egypt along with the exiled Husseini family. Bury him in his native town, Cairo.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-9-13 1:44:49 PM  

#2  Yasser's obviously gone totally senile. He's an Egyptian, born in Egypt to Egyptian parents. His homeland is Egypt, not Israel. Duh!
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2003-9-13 10:40:51 AM  

#1  "no one can deport me!"

Actually I'm thinking they can leave your fly-bitten bloated carcass in an unmarked grave in your beloved homeland, Arafish. Take him out, damn the consequences
Posted by: Frank G   2003-9-13 10:16:52 AM  

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