Posted on 03/08/2004 7:41:20 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Democratic presidential nominee-to-be John Kerry said only eight days ago that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is not a partner for peace. However, in a book he published in 1997 Kerry saw in Arafat a “statesman” and even an “role model”. According to the report published Monday, the New York Post quotes Kerry's statement from his book entitled The New War . Only one month ago he presented it, during a television interview, as proof that he would be a president “who does see ahead”. "Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman," Kerry wrote in The New War, which is now out of print. Kerry's remarks came as he was dismissing noted historian Paul Johnson as out of date for saying the Palestinian Liberation Organization is "the quintessential terrorist movement" but has achieved nothing for its people. Kerry’s spokesman said that he changed his view since writing the book, after “Arafat continuously rejected one peace offer after another and failed to reduce the level of violence”. Last July, Kerry told the Arab American Institute that Israel's security fence is "provocative" and a barrier to peace, but last week, he told Jewish leaders at a New York debate that the fence is "necessary to the security of Israel."
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