Jackson Urges Bush to Protect Arafat

Yahoo! News ^ | 3/29/02 | Unattributed AP writer

[IowaHawk]

CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web sites) on Friday urged President Bush (news - web sites) to protect Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), saying he feared the Middle East will erupt in war if Israelis kill the Palestinian leader.

"It would be unthinkable foreign policy if we were to use less than our full efforts to stop this escalation, this aim at killing him," Jackson said.

He made his plea hours after Israeli troops stormed Arafat's headquarters in response to deadly anti-Israeli attacks this week.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Friday that Israel's "endgame is to kill Arafat," however Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) Sharon aide Ranaan Gissin dismissed the allegation as "nonsense."

Jackson said the United States and the United Nations (news - web sites) "have the burden and capacity to move in" to keep Arafat from being killed. He said he had not been able to get through to the White House.

Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said Friday that Israel has promised not to harm Arafat during the assault on his compound. But Jackson said the United States "cannot be passive third parties" to the attack.

[IowaHawk]

Please Hymies, don't hurt'em!

[cmsgop]

HEY JESSIE!!!!! F.U.

[BrooklynGOP]

"It would be unthinkable foreign policy if we were to use less than our full efforts to stop this escalation, this aim at killing him," Jackson said.

Jackson is an idiot. If Israelis wanted to kill Arafat they would've sent F-16's to do the job, not tanks.

[PhilDragoo]

Drop Jesse into General Arafat's compound by parachute.*

*Parachute optional.

[linn37]

jessie jackass should hop on a plane and get to negotiating

[ZULU]

Jessie Jackson is a liar, a traitor, and a subversive.

I hope Bush gives the Israelis the obvious advice - kill Arafat. If they allow him to continue breathing anywhere else, he will still be directing terrorism. He is no better than Osama Bin-Ladin or any other one of those half-baked Muslim camel-drivers.

Maybe Bush should ask the Israeli secret police to wipe out Jackson.

[copycat]

Palestinian... said Friday that Israel's "endgame is to kill Arafat,"
Sharon aide... dismissed the allegation as "nonsense."

Not surprising that Jesse decided to argue the side of the "nonsense."

If Israel wanted Arafat dead, he'd be dead.

[No Truce With Kings]

Of course Jesse Jackson wants to see Arafat safe. Birds of a feather, and all that.

Or is it more like why a shark won't attack a lawyer . . . professional courtesy?

[DoughtyOne]

In a sane world, Jessie's rantings would be limited to the room where he made them.

[agrace]

W to Jesse: um, yeah sure, Jesse, maybe after I'm done with my copy of Shakedown.

[smoking camels]

HEY! an idea here! I will give the go ahead for you to take out Arafat if you'll take out Jesse for me. Bingo! 2 Terrorists gone!

[IowaHawk]

Not just an idiot, an completely irrelevant idiot.

Thanks for the advice Jesse, but when the adminstration needs international affairs consultation from has-been black character actors from 1972, they turn to Nipsey Russell.

[TomGuy]

Jackson said the United States and the United Nations (news - web sites) "have the burden and capacity to move in" to keep Arafat from being killed. He said he had not been able to get through to the White House.



"White House Switchboard.
We are sorry, Sir, your breaking up.
Please try your call again later.
Thank you."

[tupac]

Exile both of the rotten sons of bitches....

[pt17]

Poor Jesse, he's gone into one of his I am important in world affairs delusions just after recovering from one of his I am a diplomat seizures.

No, that's the wrong diagnosis. He's just a con artist and extortionist who's always on the lookout for something to flim-flam. Yea, that's more like it.

[Diogenesis]

[Lazamataz]

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged President Bush to protect Yasser Arafat.

Hey Jesse, I sense opportunity here! Get over to his compound and smear his blood on your shirt and claim you were by Arafats side when he died!

(Either that or knock Arafat up with a 'love child')

[HusbandMan]

He said he had not been able to get through to the White House.

This line says it all. Jesse wants to be impo'tant again.

[DoughtyOne]

Once again I want to remind people that there's much more at play here than one ignorant black leader. At an anti-war protest last fall, members of various goups gathered in support. The radical leftist Washington, D.C. protest group against the University of the Americas was joined by advocacy leadership of the following groups. NAACP, NOW, Homosexuals, other Black groups, labor unions, radical environmentalists, illegal immigrant support groups and others.

The one thing these folks had in common was their animosity toward democratic principles. These people seem to share one driving force, dislike for the principles and laws of our nation.

They are each leftists. They support just about anything that is directly opposed to what the US stands for. Some of them, and I submit all of them by by way of their intertwined motives, support the Arab position in the middle-east.

What most people see as Jessie going off on one of his rants is anything but. I think he speaks for a lot more people than most understand, under the socialist mantle that permeates all those groups. We shouldn't view any of them as working in a vacuum. They are simple a different facet on the same stone.