As soon as I saw the pictures of IDF soldiers going into Arafat's HQ room by room, rather than just putting a tank shell in each room to clear it, I thought there had to be a reason for that risk of harm to the soldiers. They had to be going after something that only soldiers can get.
Here it is. The first fruits of the rifling of Arafat's files. There will be more revelations to come. This document, and the information to follow, is going to be stuffed up the nose of every bureaucrat at the US State Department, every head of state in the EU, with two copies for each French diplomat and leader.
The purpose of this raid, as I surmised when I first saw the photos, was not to kill Arafat physically, but to kill him politically.
This is it. The Palestinian Authority as we know it is dead, roadkill under the treads of tanks.
Israel is going to take care of business until there is no more business to take care of. And, everyone who complains is going to get a copy of this document, suitable for framing.
This document is as critical to World War III as Chamberlain's "peace" treaty with Hilter was in World War II.
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