Suha Arafat: Ramallah's Lady Macbeth

With Monday's pre-dawn phone call to al-Jazeera, Suha Arafat graduated from being the Yoko Ono of Palestinian politics to Ramallah's Lady Macbeth. The rapier-sharp character assassination of her husband's heirs-in-waiting must have left Ahmed Qurei and Mahmoud Abbas wondering which of them was doomed to play King Duncan in this Shakespearean production.

The vast majority of Palestinians never related to Suha as the first lady of Palestine. Most of Arafat's associates have despised her from the first moment she arrived to work as his "economic advisor" in Tunis. Among the top brass of the Palestinian leadership, she is ridiculed as "Madame Susu" and "first lady of Paris."

In 2001 Arafat's cronies finally managed to drive her away to a lavish lifestyle in France. In revenge, the Sorbonne-educated Suha, in a series of interviews in the Arab press, lashed out at corrupt officials in her husband's entourage, accusing them of giving him bad advice and stealing the money of the Palestinians.

Arafat aides retaliated by revealing that Suha, 41, was receiving about $100,000 a month from the Palestinian budget to cover her shopping sprees in Paris.

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Free Suha !!!!

How many Suha Arafat threads will there be? 50? Seems like some obsession. How about the corruption charges against Sharon and his family members? Everyone forgot about that? Gee wonder why...

I looooove Suha.


Sorry if these threads upset you about Suha. I know you've always been quite fond of her.

Don't care about her. BUt then she's not the one in head of a "democratic" state that occupies foreign land and terrorises it's civilian population and I ain't talking about the US in this case...

you and I had this discussion a loooooong time ago.

BTW....Hows she making it on .....$ 1 0 0, 0 0 0 .0 0 a month.

Never cared about her. You must have mistaken me with someone else. I never defended her, as some defend some other people over here that are as much corrupt and filled with blood on their hands as that so terrible Arafat...

I've been here a hell of a long time, and I've never seen anyone talk about her - well, apart from Donny's latest spurt. That's probably because most people don't know much about her, and aren't really all that interested, seeing as how she's not a major figure in the I/P conflict. So, as with the Arafatfans Donny claimed infest this forum, his spotting of Suhafans is either down to translating any criticism of his beloved Sharon** into 'I'm a Arafat/Suhafan!!', or the other explanation is that he's actually reading some other bizarre board that links through to here whenever he hits the post button. There is another explanation, but it involves talking about those who talk intentional bullshit while trying to inflame other posters into committing deletable oopsies, so I won't go into that. ..

** After seeing Donny accuse two posters today of loving Suha, I thought I'd put the boot on the other foot and see what happens...

Violet...

Violet :yourock:

She said "spurt"! :D

So that how those inane posts get here...a kinky form of Pepsi-Syndrome on the keyboard...

Geez, or rather Ji--<smack> sorry Mrs. newyorican, I'll behave...