Whisper of betrayal as Arafat is shunned

www.telegraph.co.uk/ ^ | 03/05/2002 | By Alan Philps in Ramallah

[grobdriver]

Ten peace activists - including Georgina Reeves, a Briton who lives in the Palestinian territories and is organiser of the International Solidarity Movement - slipped into the besieged church after colleagues created a diversion to distract Israeli soldiers.

Disappointing. I thought the IDF was better than this.

[paul51]

I don't believe this. Yesterday Geraldo was reporting just the opposite.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The British and American monitors guarding the Palestinian terrorists are sitting ducks. For the sake of our military personnel, I hope there is very tight security around the prison.

[TADSLOS]

I interpreted the story to read that the general Palestinian populace was disappointed that he didn't achieve martyrdom.

[The KG9 Kid]

Why, how dare you. ;-]

Seems to me that Arafat will now have to get the trust of his people back by ordering some appalling act of savagery.

... that is, if there's anyone still willing to send their children off to die for him.

[Cold Heat]

Disappointing. I thought the IDF was better than this.

Don't be.......The IDF could not shoot them! They will find themselves turned into hostages and possibly worse. More bad publicity for the Pali's.

[Cold Heat]

I don't believe this. Yesterday Geraldo was reporting just the opposite

You have not seen Jerry this morning? What a drooling lap dog! LOL!

[Faraday]

It seems that the British press may have gotten the message that the Israelis don't give a damn what they think. Also, the Americans don't care (except Gore Vidal, a few lefties, and holocaust deniers). The Brit press may be making a strategic retreat in hopes someone will begin to listen. Sorry, won't happen.

[Redbob]

"Ah! a glimmer of intelligence!!!

Yeah, at this rate they should be ready to put down rocks and sticks and start using iron tools, fire, and verbal communication in, oh, 10,000 years or so!

[Faraday]

Disappointing. I thought the IDF was better than this.

My guess is that Israeli intelligence has some people in this delegation to assess the situation.

[doug from upland]

He moved on to the Education Ministry to see the damage done by the army. All the computer hard disks have been removed, as well as the files and records of the past seven years' exam results.

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The Israeli attempt to encourage school vouchers???

[Bagehot]

I saw it. It was hilarious. Brit Hume could barely contain his glee.

[Cold Heat]

Those sharp rocks must have hurt! LOL! I like the way the dead guy pulled the blanket back over his head.

[My Favorite Headache]

How long before someone from Hamas kills Arafat and then claims to be the super Al Queda of Israel and then American troops go in? I believe this is what some of the Arab world is really waiting for. American troops killing Palestinians and then game on in the middle east.

[windcliff]

ping

[dawn53]

I heard Geraldo too, but Middle East reporter on MSNBC was reporting just what this article says, that there are now major rifts among the Palestinians because Arafat agreed to turn over the six. That's why at the last minute he tried to reduce it to 4, but the US and Israel stood their ground.

Cudos to Bush if this was the plan.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Not to worry. Double-posting was a more common problem in the earlier days of FR, when the FR site's server would be bombarded, esp. during the Clinton impeachment (we had sources telling us the dweebs in the Carville-run White House basement were trying to overload this site).

[MeekOneGOP]

Yes Palestinians. Do you remember on the first day of the siege he boasted to you that he
would rather be a martyr than turn himself over? Are things beginning to sink into your thick skulls?

Actually that was a veiled signal to the Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades and others to step up the homicide
bomber attacks, according to an intel expert on FOX News the day he said that......

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, man! Sorry I missed that. Thanks for passing that along here! :O)

[wardaddy]

Much as I would like to believe this. I'm not sure. It is in marked contrast to every other news report on Arafat's re-emergence I've reviewed from a variety of sources.