> From: GAmoore@... > > Why is it the Israeli's blame Arafat for any disturbance that is caused > by any of the millions of Palestinians? They assume he has absolute > control every individual? Don't know how you came to that conclusion... >From what I hear, he is barely clinging to > power, many of the people support Hamas and Hezbolah with their radical > ideas. It's clear that these days, he's one of the moderates. > Arafat is their best chance for peace believe it or not. Which doesn't take away from his actions past or present. >And > calling him a terrorist is pretty hypcritical - considering what Sharon > has done with raids on Arab civilians and the refugee camp massacres - It's not hypocritical to name a terrorist because another one is too... > many consider him a class A war criminal. And yet he is invited to the > White House twice and Arafat not at all. Really? http://www.state.gov/www/regions/nea/peace_chron.html http://www11.cnn.com/WORLD/9604/30/wh.peres.visit/ He's been to Camp David and Washington a number of times.
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Re: [L-OT] ]Goodbye/Arafat
2001-09-24 by marc lindahl