Arafat Rejects Abu Mazen Cabinet Choices

Ha'aretz ^ | April 13, 2003 | arnon regular

[SoulStorms]

The pattern is: Israel hints at a concession. The world gears up for diplomacy aimed at a "Mideast Peace". The negotiations get down to a couple of vital issues (now one less without the settlements issue). Then...

Waves of Hamas killers vaporize a few busloads of Israeli innocents, making any discussion of "peace" a moot one.

The sequence has become as trite as Tom Daschle's "concern". Will a "roadmap" make any difference?

[Tailgunner Joe]

[thatdewd]

Hello, Washington? Reality Check: It's Arafat's cabinet. He picked Abbas, and he's picking the cabinet. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[angkor]

Arafat still micromanages everything.

Including the assignments of suicide bombers.

[phothus]

This is the struggle to be watching. Arafat's problem is going to be that the official controls are shifting out of his hands. At that point, his legitimacy will be even more comprimised. If he can tailspin and ruin the whole process, he might stick around... but I'm not so sure he can do that... there might be some hope for the Palestinians yet.

[F16Fighter]

"Kill Arafat now.

For the sake of the Arabs living in Israel's liberated territories (known as "Palestinians").

Yep -- THIS is the most logical and constructive thing can be done for the region...

Arafat is nothing but an abscess. He must be made redundant permanently.

[ScholarWarrior]

Yes. It's the first stop on the road map.

The Road From Baghdad goes through Syria.

[Steve Eisenberg]

Hello, Washington? Reality Check: It's Arafat's cabinet. He picked Abbas, and he's picking the cabinet. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Right. This is a great example of how the Holy Land gets too much press scrutiny. The differences between Abbas and Arafat are too subtle for people outside to worry much about. For example, Abbas kept on the same education minister who has been so successful at teaching the teenagers to hate Israel to the death.

[Steve Eisenberg]

Correction to my last post. It wan't that Abu Mazen kept the same education minister, but that he gave it to someone from Hamas who (if this is possible) might be worse.

[thatdewd]

Yeah, it's the same as if Hitler decided to share power with Goering, and all of a sudden nazis aren't bad. Abbas co-founded Fatah with Arafat, and is one of the last of the original PLO guys (The Hitler/Goering ananogy is VERY fitting). Fatah, THEIR GROUP, is the main one that sent "palestinians" to Iraq to kill Americans. They bragged about it with a fervor. Abbas is Fatah, Arafat is Fatah, and Fatah is terrorism. The very idea of a Hamas operative being the education minister says it all. What a great bunch of guys...

[Asher]

"Yeah, it's the same as if Hitler decided to share power with Goering...(The Hitler/Goering ananogy is VERY fitting)"

Even more so than you imagine. See thread below:

Laundering Abu Mazen (Arafat's replacement a "Holocaust revisionist.. and promoter of terrorism")

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/892671/posts

[thatdewd]

Good article, don't know how I missed that one. Bumping it over there...(ananogy=analogy, I gotta start using spellcheck)