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Arafat: I'll dismantle Hamas when Israel agrees to dismantle IDF
israel insider ^ | By Ellis Shuman September 18, 2003 | By Ellis Shuman September 18, 2003

Posted on 09/18/2003 5:56:02 PM PDT by dennisw

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said the Palestinians were serious about their offer to Israel of a new hudna (temporary cease-fire). Responding to the possibility that he would be expelled by Israel, Arafat said he was willing to die as a martyr. Israeli officials quickly dismissed Arafat's statements and called him a "pathological liar."

In a series of interviews granted to the Israeli media on Wednesday, Arafat said contacts are already underway with Hamas and Islamic Jihad to achieve a new cease-fire. "The Islamic Jihad is already ready and now we are continuing with the Hamas," Arafat told Yediot Aharonot. "Up to now, the results are positive, there is a positive outlook from their perspective."

Earlier this week, Arafat's national security adviser, Jibril Rajoub, said that the Palestinian leadership was prepared to declare a "general cease-fire," if it was mutual with Israel. Rajoub said the cease-fire would require Palestinians to end all violence, and Israelis must "end their attacks, and lift the blockades and closures over the Palestinian population, which has been suffering for the last three years."

Arafat confirmed Rajoub's offer of a new truce and told his Israeli interviewers from Channel Two and Channel Ten television, "You're invited."

Arafat called on Israel to renew peace negotiations and said the Palestinians were committed to the "road map" peace initiative. "We will bring international observers [to the territories]," Arafat said. "This was agreed in the 'road map.' This way we will stop the bloodshed."

When Yediot Aharonot mentioned that implementation of the "road map" also calls explicitly for the dismantlement of terrorist infrastructure, Arafat replied, "This is not infrastructure. This is an opposition that you built, and that you armed. Even [Egyptian] President Mubarak said in an interview that he heard from [the late prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin that he agreed to having Hamas established, and that was a scandalous mistake. How can they be disarmed? Aren't [Israel's] acts of killing creating their response?"

Arafat said Israel should be required to dismantle the infrastructure of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). "I know what military infrastructure is. Don't forget, you are talking to an army general!"

A senior Fatah official said on Wednesday that Hamas was interested in a hudna if Israel would agree to end its policy of "targeted killing" attempts on the Hamas leadership. Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin delivered the message recently in a meeting with Zakaria al-Agha, an envoy sent by Yasser Arafat, Haaretz reported.

Associates of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom dismissed the latest offer by the Palestinians for a cease-fire and said that Israel would not fall again into that kind of trap.

Israeli officials said that Arafat is just trying to save himself and project to the world that he is seeking peace, Yediot Aharonot reported. "We have already been in the horror movie of the hudna and we had to count all of our dead. We know this is just part of the festival of Yasser Arafat's fight for survival. Arafat is a pathological liar, and his terrorist strategy hasn't changed for a moment.

"We won't repeat the mistake of the first hudna. There will be no gestures of goodwill on Israel's part, and we will not stop security actions or pinpoint operations, unless the Palestinian Authority fulfills its commitments listed in the 'road map' to fight terror itself," the officials said, quoted in Yediot Aharonot.

Meanwhile, Arafat's men are surrounding his office with women and children acting as a "human shield" against an Israeli attempt to assassinate or deport him, Israeli security sources said yesterday, according to a Haaretz report.

 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: arafat; hamas; idf
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1 posted on 09/18/2003 5:56:03 PM PDT by dennisw
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This is a frank admission that Hamas is a hostile military power, one that is controlled by him.

My advice? Destroy it forthwith,, along with its 'general'.
2 posted on 09/18/2003 5:58:15 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (one mile from the Capitol in DC...)
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To: EternalVigilance
This is a frank admission that Hamas is a hostile military power, one that is controlled by him.

Once Arafat was as sly as he was ruthless.

It now seems that age has caught up to the freak.

Now he sounds as stupid as he is ugly....and that's a lot!!

3 posted on 09/18/2003 6:00:53 PM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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To: dennisw
I actually laughed when I read the headline. A sick, sardonic laugh.

I wonder how Sharon's govt reads the tea leaves on what the likely US reaction would be to an **effective** strike against Hamas, et al.

4 posted on 09/18/2003 6:02:19 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: dennisw
Hmmmm......Yasser says HE'LL dismantle a TERRORIST group, which specializes in blowing civilian men, women and children to smithereens, when Israel dismantles it's security agency.

Yasser actually owned up to running Hamas. I am astounded. Israel, ask us to come in, do joint ops and blow Hamas and Yasser to smithereens, PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!! You want them, we want them...ok. Let's get them.

5 posted on 09/18/2003 6:08:17 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: EternalVigilance
He is now a target of opportunity. If Israel does not kill or capture him...then we should.
6 posted on 09/18/2003 6:10:41 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: dennisw
"I know what military infrastructure is. Don't forget, you are talking to an army general!"

Talk about an army of one. What army is he general of?

7 posted on 09/18/2003 6:11:02 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
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To: yonif
BTTT.
8 posted on 09/18/2003 6:11:16 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: dennisw
Dear Arafat,
"palestine" has never been a country.
You have the ability to be a roaring mouse only thanks to the collusion and financial support of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq.
Their days are numbered.

Then what are you gonna do?

9 posted on 09/18/2003 6:13:09 PM PDT by Publius6961 (californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: dennisw
Dismantle Ara(pig)fat.

Then clean out the rest of the jihadis.

10 posted on 09/18/2003 6:13:32 PM PDT by LibKill (Leaving the toilet seat up improves your household feng shui.)
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To: dennisw
All the more argument for the US to stop trying to be everyone's big brother in the region and let the little kids fight...... Let the Israelis make the wrath of the IDF one notch higher on the list of things for the Palis to worry about than the wrath of God.....
11 posted on 09/18/2003 6:17:58 PM PDT by CodeMonkey
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To: Publius6961
It's time the roaring mouse unceremoniously gets divided into little bits and pieces, cooked and served for dinner by the cat........
12 posted on 09/18/2003 6:19:49 PM PDT by CodeMonkey
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To: dennisw
Accept under the following condition: The first Israeli civilian killed will result in a bomb in Arafat's living room. The second will will result in the demise of Rantisi. The 3rd, Yassin.
13 posted on 09/18/2003 6:20:02 PM PDT by cookcounty
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To: dennisw
Liar, liar, pants on fire! Sorry to be so juvenile, but arafart made me do it.
14 posted on 09/18/2003 6:20:03 PM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: EternalVigilance
This is a frank admission that Hamas is a hostile military power, one that is controlled by him.

Killing an enemy army is what the IDF was MADE for .. and he was just stupid enough to give them carte blanche for any operations against them.

15 posted on 09/18/2003 6:21:19 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Islam : totalitarian political ideology / meme cloaked under the cover of religion)
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To: EternalVigilance
"Arafat's national security adviser, Jibril Rajoub, said that the Palestinian leadership was prepared to declare a "general cease-fire," if it was mutual with Israel."

Yeah...just this little statement acknowledges that Arafat has control over the violence being perpetrated. How else can Arafat declare a cease-fire unless he controls the fire.
16 posted on 09/18/2003 6:21:51 PM PDT by cwb
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To: I got the rope; dennisw
Don't forget, you are talking to an army general!"

As posters have pointed out correctly, he basically admits to being behind terrorism and that he leads it through the Palestinian Authority terror regime. He and that regime must go.

Another note is that he claims he is a "army" general. Some "army" he has there, one which hides behind civilians, does not wear uniforms, and one who targets Israeli civilians.

18 posted on 09/18/2003 6:24:21 PM PDT by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: EternalVigilance
This is a frank admission that Hamas is a hostile military power, one that is controlled by him.

And it would appear to open the potential for war crimes charges.

19 posted on 09/18/2003 6:25:19 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Trailerpark Badass
And it would appear to open the potential for war crimes charges.

Yes, where are those folks in Brussels who seem to care so much about these kind of things?

20 posted on 09/18/2003 6:30:37 PM PDT by StriperSniper (The slippery slope is getting steeper.)
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