Well, let us consider: Yassir the Egyptian got the *Palestinians* thrown out of Jordan in 1970 with several thousand casualties when he tried to take on King Hussein's armoured forces and paratroopers. Then in 1982 got them similarly ejected from Lebanon, leaving all equipment other than one rifle apiece behind. Following which he rejected the Camp David offer of a permanent homeland for his fellow refugees from Egypt and Syria, and it appears that they very well now may soon be evicted from Gaza and the West Bank, to resume their posturing among the penguins of Antarctica, perhaps.
Certainly Arafat's rhetoric and bluster have been antagonistic toward Israel, but in reality, he's pulled the carpet out from beneath his own followers' aspirations several times at key moments- and ruthlessly eliminated any alternative to his ideas about how their business should be conducted.
Why, at times, it almost appears that he's an Israeli agent of influence....and why would the Israelis want to eliminate their own man?
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