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Pleasing to many here, I'm sure, but the will to carry this out doesn't exist in either Israel or the US. Yet, maybe.
Posted on 06/23/2003 5:27:37 AM PDT by Alouette
Chief of Staff: Israel debates killing Arafat
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Top Israeli security officials on several occasions discussed the possibility of killing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel's military chief has revealed.
Those discussions did not reach any practical planning stage and no preparations were made for an attempt on Arafat's life, Haaretz reported Monday.
The remarks by Army Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon marked the first time a senior Israeli official has openly talked of plans to assassinate Arafat.
"Why did we not kill Arafat? The truth is that the discussion whether or not to kill Arafat was debated a number of times in the past," Yaalon told a chamber of commerce meeting in the southern city of Beersheba on Sunday. Those discussions came up after two bloody periods punctuated by Palestinian suicide bombings, a year ago and again last September, Haaretz reported.
"The subject was debated in terms of costs and benefits," Yaalon said. "It is correct that occasionally we need to reevaluate if our cost and benefit assessments were correct or not."
Arafat has been confined by Israeli military forces to his partially destroyed compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah for the last 18 months. Israeli officials, most notably Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, have called for exiling the Palestinian leader, who Israel has accused of backing militants.
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Pleasing to many here, I'm sure, but the will to carry this out doesn't exist in either Israel or the US. Yet, maybe.
I totally agree. The U.S. roams the barren wastes of Iraq, from time to time, incinerating any convoy or building that even hints at containing Hussein, and few dare question the reasoning because we are right. The mass graves are enough justification.
Yet, Israel, in dealing with this "darling" of the lunatic neo-left, a terrorist in position and deed, in a scenario which mirrors ours in Iraq perfectly, still have not arrived at that mindset where they are ready to risk the wrath of the world to do what is right and liberate the "Palistinian" people from Arafat's corrupt and deadly grip.
Indeed, to liberate themselves.
I don't think it happens, he probably dies in Suha's arms. But about those virgins, may not be all he wants it to be
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