...but now they want to expel him...
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Israel backs down from threat to kill Arafat...
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Israel backs down from threat to kill Arafat...
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duh, of course, how else are they going to make Arafat the focal point of the struggle. They have to do something to make him appear to be the only credible leader of the Palestinians.
As long as he stays, he is a known quantity that can be counted on to play the game a certain way. I think the only problmes the Israelis might really have is that they have to find a suitable replacement for Arafat when he does croak (of natural causes one would hope). The guy is old after all.
As long as he stays, he is a known quantity that can be counted on to play the game a certain way. I think the only problmes the Israelis might really have is that they have to find a suitable replacement for Arafat when he does croak (of natural causes one would hope). The guy is old after all.
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Re: Israel backs down from threat to kill Arafat...
Mo-Rons.
They've expelled him before, and that worked just great; he was able
to lead the PLO to greater heights of terrorism.
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Re: Israel backs down from threat to kill Arafat...
Exactly.MKSheppard wrote:They've expelled him before, and that worked just great; he was able
to lead the PLO to greater heights of terrorism.
I should have put a "Rolling Eyes" smiley in the original post...
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"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." --P.J. O'Rourke
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --J.S. Mill
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They really should just start building a giant concrete dome over the half a building that's left in his compound.
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The main problem, if you could call it that is what would actually happen if Arafat did bite the dust from say a hellfire missile fired by an Israeli Apache.
The entire benefit of Arafat is that he is a known quantity, give him a cushy enough life, and he could care less if half the west bank or Gaza strip starves or gets tied up in a sack and tossed into the Med. Heaven forbid if a real idealist comes around to leading the Palestinians rather than someone like Arafat who is more or less pliable.
The entire benefit of Arafat is that he is a known quantity, give him a cushy enough life, and he could care less if half the west bank or Gaza strip starves or gets tied up in a sack and tossed into the Med. Heaven forbid if a real idealist comes around to leading the Palestinians rather than someone like Arafat who is more or less pliable.
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