Israel's Assassination of Arafat 'a matter of time'

AFP ^ | April 22, 4004 | AFP - Reporters

[me_newswire]

CAIRO - An Israeli attempt to assassinate Yasser Arafat is "only a matter of time", the Palestinian leader's national security adviser Jibril Rajoub said in an interview published here yesterday.

"An attack on Arafat's life is only a matter of time because Arafat symbolises the freedom" of the Palestinian people, General Rajoub told the Egyptian weekly magazine Nahdat Mir.

On March 22, the leader of the Palestinian radical Islamic movement Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was killed in an Israeli helicopter raid in Gaza City.

And Israel assassinated his successor, Abdelaziz Rantissi, less than a month later.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was slapped down by his allies in Washington after giving an interview in which he warned that Arafat was a "marked man".

But he renewed the threat in early April, saying his long-time nemesis was to blame for "the murder of Jews for decades" and that "all those who kill Jews or push for the killing of Jews or Israeli citizens deserve to die."

For Rajoub, the assassinations of Sheikh Yassin and Rantissi were designed "to abort the inter-Palestinian dialogue, which was on the point of succeeding" between Arafat's Palestinian Authority and radical groups.

"The Israelis hit us to push us to react," he said, adding that Hamas retaliation would be "legitimate".

But "the militarisation of the intifada (uprising) and the launching of suicide operations (inside Israel)... have been a strategic error," Rajoub said.

"The resistance should be limited to the occupied zones."

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[Bon mots]

An Israeli attempt to assassinate Yasser Arafat is "only a matter of time",

Judging from recent events, it won't be merely "an attempt"...

[John Frum]

The removal of Arafat is a good thing. Perhaps we can revoke that peace prize too that supposedly he received.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

 

The Terrorist, and his enabler...

[T Minus Four]

tick, tick, tick, tick,.....

[Redbob]

Long, long overdue!

[Slings and Arrows]

An Israeli attempt to assassinate Yasser Arafat is "only a matter of time", the Palestinian leader's national security adviser Jibril Rajoub said in an interview published here yesterday.

Hmmm, sounds like someone wants a promotion and is laying the ground for a false-flag operation.

[Not that'd I'd be less than happy if he was right.]

[alloysteel]

It is not like Arafat has never had opportunity to reform. He will not, not even with the most advantageous of terms offered to him for settlement of the dispute between the Jewish and Arab adversaries on land occupancy of Israel. Only one objective seems to be acceptable, to push the Jews into the sea.

As this outcome is highly unlikely in any event, and Arafat remains intransigent, then he has become an obstacle in the path to peace. Like an aged and surly dog, he shall be administered euthanasia. Or dysthanasia. Or simply thanasia. Or he could flee the Gaza Strip altogether.

[onedoug]

Better late than never.

[Southern62]

if it happened today it would be overdue..

[wjcsux]

Coming to a terrorist Pali neighborhood near you...

[Fitzcarraldo]

A yawning chasm opens up before Arafat, with flames leaping from its depths...

[Bon mots]

[Fitzcarraldo]

[Bon mots]

Of course, that is the followup to this cartoon:

[InvisibleChurch]

so I forget, who's the leader of hamas now?

[MinuteGal]

Claude Raines.

Leni

[truth_seeker]

Just one among very many musli that need to be killed.

We kill them, before they kill us.

[sheik yerbouty]

Put a stake through the heart of that old vampire!

[isthisnickcool]

Too bad they can't figure out a way to kill him 20 years ago. The old Egyptian (even Arafat can't speak "Palestinian*)pirate need to go.

*Neither can anyone else on the planet.