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Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's departure from the scene would bring about a significant transformation in both the Israeli and Palestinian political scene. The claim that "there is no partner," which has formed the basis of Israeli foreign policy over the past four years and justified the refusal to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority, would depart together with him. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan would lose the central justification for its existence - the lack of a Palestinian partner. Only one day after the Knesset approved the disengagement plan and the dramatic schism took place in the Likud...

Enraged Arafat Orders All-out Terror DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 11, 2004, 10:54 PM (GMT+02:00) Yasser Arafat’s enraged call for an all-round escalation of Palestinian violence distinguished the Palestinian response to the latest Israeli counter-terror operation in the Gaza Strip from former episodes, according to DEBKAfile’s Palestinian experts. Shijaia, the Hamas stronghold planted in densely populated Gaza City, was the target of a broad Israeli military strike beginning before dawn Wednesday, February 11 and ending around noon. It was mounted in response to an upsurge in recent weeks of intense Hamas mortar and missile attacks from Shijaia against southern Israeli locations...

Munich Olympics Massacre Said to Be PLO Operation05 May, 1999By Patrick GoodenoughCNS Jerusalem Bureau ChiefJerusalem (CNS) – Yasser Arafat's PLO was directly responsible for the assault on Israel's athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, one of the men who oversaw the attack has confirmed 27 years later. Abu Daoud, currently a member of the Palestine National Council, made the admission in his French-language autobiography, "Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich," which was launched in Paris on Monday. Daoud, whose real name is Mohammed Daoud Machmoud Auda, was a leader of Black September, a terrorist group which the PLO claimed it...

MIDI - KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR Lots of tanks are right outside…he can't let you see he cried Yasser's finally through, at last…he, too, can kiss my Irish *** Knock, knock, knockin' on Yasser's door Their chairman will soon be no more He asks Allah "what's this for" Knock, knock, knockin' on Yasser's door As he cowers in his room…you know that this lowlife scum has been sensing doom Just one candle on his desk…and FOXNews has reported his pants he messed Knock, knock, knockin' on Yasser's door Their chairman will be no more He has asked Allah "what...