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ARAFAT MUST GO

James Joyner
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The AP (via Yahoo!News) reports a new wrinkle in the Arab-Palestinian peace process:

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stepped in to assert Tuesday that he — not his prime minister — is in charge of the Palestinian side in negotiations with Israel, throwing plans for an Israeli-Palestinian summit into confusion.

Arafat has long outlived his usefulness. It would not be a bad thing if a bullet were to “accidentally” find his skull.

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4 responses to “ARAFAT MUST GO”

  1. jen Avatar
    jen

    Surely you jest. 😉

    I don’t understand why we (the US) didn’t put more pressure on him long ago. Of course, Clinton was best friends with him, which weirdly gave the terrorist credibility.

  2. Steven Avatar
    Steven

    He is clearly an impediment to peace. Of course, I have thought that ever since he rejected that offer at Camp David.

  3. Laurence Simon Avatar
    Laurence Simon

    Worst of it all is Bush stopping by an Arab country for a pre-Sharon/Abbas summit. It’s just like Powell building a coalition before getting smacked down by Palestinian insistence on Death to Israel except one idiot higher up on the food chain.

  4. John Lemon Avatar
    John Lemon

    Arafat won a Peace Prize in 1994.

    Hat tip: James Taranto.

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