Sharon: Arafat 'no longer relevant'; IAF bombs PA Gaza office

Ha'aretz ^ | 12/13/2001 | Amos Harel, Amira Hass and Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz Correspondents, Ha'aretz Service and agencies

[Smogger]

Let's see what happens over there this morning...

[anniegetyourgun]

Who no longer exists?

[Hillary 666]

Who no longer exists?

Foreshadowing?

[AD from SpringBay]

Huhh??! Didn't Clinton and Albright take care of all this?

[Thinkin' Gal]

[blam]

Are they just going to bomb a couple empty buildings again?

[Bogey78O]

What did the PA expect. Israel capitulates to them as long as they do ONE thing. They can't even do that. How hard is it to go pick up militants and keep them under surveilance. Hell, if Israel can find them why can't the PA?

[My Favorite Headache]

Arafat is gonna have to travel a long way to get some immediate help here:

[stumpy]

They need to hit buildings that are full of em to get their attention.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

This is the fruit of Oslo -- and Clinton's personal form of megalomania.

In a sordid way it is for the best, the Palestinian arabs will finally have to deal with reality, not some fairy tale concocted by Clintonian spin-meisters. The reality is that Israel will not self-destruct, or negotiate its way into the Mediterranean. They will get a very hard lesson and be left with a very hard choice: Live in peace in a democracy where you are a minority, or die where you stand.

Most will see the virtue of the first way, some will simply leave, and many others who cannot bear the reality of Israel's existence will die. Their deaths should be welcomed for they are a blight on humanity.

[blam]

Many buildings full of'em.

[ipfreely]

Good. I can't believe it took them so long to figure this out. Arafat should have been dead long ago. Now he has brought all of "palestine" down with him. I hope Israel follows through with full force on this statement.

[veryconernedamerican]

These are the warning shots. Arafat is gone. But first we have to test the reaction from the rest of the world. After they don't cry foul, look out! This is a bad time to be a terrorist.

[Rome2000]

Israel either takes care of this once and for all by driving these Islamic bombing scum out of Gaza and the West bank into Jordan or they deserve everything they get.

The leftists in Israel and the USA would rather see Israelis citizens die than stand up to the murderers.

The right in the USA would never put up with this kind of nonsense in this country, once again the right has fix the screw-ups of the left.

Klinton set Israel up for this, he and the left are as responsible for these bombings as the raghead dead men walking Palestinians.

Klinton will be brought to judgement for this, if not in this life then by God.

[11B3]

Yessir, Yasser is out of here....Sounds to me like the A-Areas will be returning to their rightful owners, and the IDF will now be giving the world a crash course on security and control. The Ankle and her cronies will cry for the Pallies - which will put her right where she belongs - out in left field siding with the terrorists. hehehe. Her only other option is to side with the Israelis and lose her core support for the 2004 landslide loss. God has a sense of humor.

[MississippiMan]

Good. I can't believe it took them so long to figure this out. Arafat should have been dead long ago. Now he has brought all of "palestine" down with him. I hope Israel follows through with full force on this statement.

Israel has restrained itself as long as it has solely to appease the USA. Looks like that restraint may be at an end.

MM

[Rome2000]

Israeli Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit said the decision did not mean that Israel would harm the Palestinian leader.

``We have no intention to get Arafat, to assassinate Arafat or to hurt him...We simply see him as having no value as a partner,'' he told a news conference after the cabinet meeting.

Looks like old habits die hard. The Israelis don't want to kill Arafat? Why the hell not?

The USA wants Bin Laden "Dead or Alive".

The Israelis have their shot right now, they either take care of the problem or they will be eventually destroyed.

[river rat]

Correct!
Our boy president - Clinton - blew so much smoke up Arafat's ass, that he came to believe he was important, had power, had influence - and could get anything he wanted by being an obnoxious bastard...

Well, he was dead wrong. Arafat's cause has been dealt the death blow... they are waking dead, and don't know it.. Their cause no longer has sympathy from the U.S. public.
Semper Fi

[MississippiMan]

The Israelis have their shot right now, they either take care of the problem or they will be eventually destroyed.

I agree that they need to act now, but they're not gonna be destroyed. The story's already been written.

MM