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Who murdered Arafat?

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How about some speculation of what will be in the Arab press when Arafat finally succumbs to his mysterious illness?

Of course the Israelis and the CIA did him in with their superpowers; but how?
 
Whoever they were, I give them my thanks for killing one of the biggest aholes on the planet.
 
I am not sure that the death of Arafat is such a great thing. If it was, he would have died of a "suspicious illness" years ago. The thing that has kept Arafat alive and in power is quite simple. Nobody has any idea who is going to replace him. Compared to some of the nutcases out there, Arafat is a moderate.
 
Elind said:
How about some speculation of what will be in the Arab press when Arafat finally succumbs to his mysterious illness?

Of course the Israelis and the CIA did him in with their superpowers; but how?
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CNN reported (TV in my background) that some Pal Newspaper is reporting (sorry for the double hearsay) that Israel killed him with food poisoning.

Anybody heard same C-T?
 
Random said:
I am not sure that the death of Arafat is such a great thing. If it was, he would have died of a "suspicious illness" years ago. The thing that has kept Arafat alive and in power is quite simple. Nobody has any idea who is going to replace him. Compared to some of the nutcases out there, Arafat is a moderate.
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I hear A_U_P is on the short list. Fool will act as PM.
 
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Rob Lister said:
CNN reported (TV in my background) that some Pal Newspaper is reporting (sorry for the double hearsay) that Israel killed him with food poisoning.

Anybody heard same C-T?
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You'll realize that in the Arab world Israel is responsible for everything Rob. For if one blames Israel for everything then one never has to take responsibility for anything. ;)
 
Yup, seems there's a rumor of poisoning. My source was www.aftenposten.no that listed it among several rumors going around. One rumor claims that Arafat is doing great. So who was it that said that AUP would be first to mention wacky conspiracy theories? ;)
 
Well that didn't take long.

Arafat poisoned?
A Palenstian diplomat accused the Israelis yesterday of poisoning Yasser Arafat. "The doctors until now could not diagnose precisely what is wrong with him, but it is believed there is a poison," Ali Kazak, who heads the Palestinian delegation to Australia, told the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne.

Arafat's doctor, Ashraf Kurdi, told the Al Jazeera satellite TV network that, "Arafat's health condition makes poisoning a strong possibility."
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Damned Arabs eh?
Next thing you know they`ll be accusing Israel of carrying missiles in ambulances!
 
demon said:
Damned Arabs eh? Next thing you know they`ll be accusing Israel of carrying missiles in ambulances!
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The funny thing about the claim of poisioning Demon is that one hundred doctors have seen him since late October, the best doctors in France tested his soon-to-be corpse, yet Israel poisoned him is still "a possibility" for Ali Kazak and Ashraf Kurdi. :D

Anyhow, we are talking about a demographic that still believes jews were not told to go to work on 9-11 as Mossad cameramen danced with joy on New Jersey rooftops...;)
 
ZN:
"Anyhow, we are talking about a demographic that still believes jews were not told to go to work on 9-11 as Mossad cameramen danced with joy on New Jersey rooftops..."

And most of your US "demographic" thinks that Saddam was responsible for it.
Go figure eh?
 
If they kept me pinned down in some little bombed out ruin for three years it'd probably be death by STD. :wink:

Sheesh, I just feel almost nothing for the guy. He's worked so long for his own ego and power it's hard to give a damn.

He's lived a long life, will be remembered as a great hero and martyr, surrounded by pretty French nurses (a personal deathbed wish of mine).

One of his 'supporters' will probably accidentally pull the plug.
 
demon said:
And most of your US "demographic" thinks that Saddam was responsible for it. Go figure eh?
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Arafat was the worst thing ever to happen to the Palestinians. For 40 years he used them as a proxy in the Arab worlds' effort to destroy Israel. He stole from Palestinians, alienated Palestinians throughout the Western and Arab world, played Palestinians against Palestinians and left a wake of destruction from Jordan to Lebanon to Gaza and the West Bank.

Even in death Ali Kazak, who heads the Palestinian delegation to Australia and Ashraf Kurdi, Arafat's doctor, don't blame Arafat for his own death....:D
 
zenith-nadir said:
Well that didn't take long.

Arafat poisoned?
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It's taken way too long for me. The Middle East lives on rumor and lie. How did it take this long to surface? I was going to start a thread on this topic when he first became ill. This is just another example of the media being slow to report the facts on the ground.

If you were part of the non Israeli Middle East and a 75 year old man gets sick and dies - FOR NO REASON!! What would you think??

The Jews.
 
Kopji said:
... He's lived a long life, will be remembered as a great hero and martyr...
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I wonder about this. In many cult of personality states, if the dead leader is not succeeded by a relative his memory is sullied if not expunged.

He'll be buried as a hero but it's very possible, if the Palestinians move now toward statehood, Arafat will not be remembered kindly by Palestinian historians.
 
ZN:
"Well that didn't take long.

Arafat poisoned? "

I guess stuff like this doesn`t actually inspire confidence among Palestinians that he wasn`t poisoned. Looks like they had their reasons.

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Many Palestinians are convinced that Ariel Sharon, the implacable opponent with whom he had first duelled in exile in Lebanon, had a hand in Arafat's collapse. They remember Sharon's statement earlier this year that he no longer felt bound by his promise "not to harm" Arafat. In a cunningly vague article in the Jerusalem Post his confidant, Uri Dan, yesterday hinted that Sharon "eliminated" Arafat via one of his chefs. So it is not surprising that rumours are swirling that Arafat was surreptitiously poisoned or infected.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1344288,00.html
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I think this was reported on both BBC and C4 News tonight.
 
Well you got me there Demon. Since the "Guardian" printed a third-party heresay conspiracy theory then hell....it must be true!
 
The only thing which I hope the people in power are realizing, is that the "war on terror" begins and ends with the Israel/Palestine conflict.

I have no qualms in hoping that Arafat croaks. He was in many ways a stumbling block for peace.

What I hope even more is that Bush realizes that his war on terror can be substantially more successful if he decides that the parties to the Israel/Palestine conflict must be f**king forced to reach a solution.
 
DanishDynamite said:
The only thing which I hope the people in power are realizing, is that the "war on terror" begins and ends with the Israel/Palestine conflict.
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Funny thing is Osama Bin Laden said nothing about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict originally in his reasons for 9-11. I feel Islamic fundamentalism is the cause and the Israeli/Palestinian issue is an excuse. If the Israeli/Palestinian issue was the cause then Palestinians wouldn't be kept hostage in 50-year-old refugee camps in Arab countries without jobs or citizenship.
 
Okay, here's the scoop. Listen up.

Stop blaming Israel.

And don't bother blaming Bush either.

I admit it.

I did it.

Me.

Me, personally.

I'm responsible.

I'll be giving autographs at 9:00 PM est (that roughly 15 minutes)
 
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