Arafat: Tragedy & Hope

I know this site doesn't call Jimmy Carter an anti-semite,or explain why voting for Bush is a good thing,but I hope you'll all bear with me

The Palestinian leader was upset, too, about accusations that he didn’t really try to stop terrorism against Israel. When I asked that question, as I always did, he responded with frustration and bewilderment. Leaning toward me in his chair, his eyes bulging slightly, his brows arched, he insisted that stopping terrorist attacks on Israel was beyond his power, especially after he was confined to his headquarters in Ramallah.

Arafat said he had succeeded in stopping dozens of planned attacks and arrested the fanatics. Though Sharon knew this, Arafat said, the Israeli prime minister wouldn’t acknowledge these acts. But stopping all terrorism was impossible, Arafat said, noting that even the powerful United States couldn’t eliminate terrorism, so how could he, especially when he was effectively a prisoner isolated from his people.
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Regarding Arafat, the U.S. press has been overwhelmingly hostile, an attitude I have personally witnessed at CBS’s “Sixty Minutes” and elsewhere. Indeed, one of the professional weaknesses displayed by the mainstream American news media is its tendency to pile on a foreign leader who is unpopular with the U.S. government and who lacks a strong constituency that will defend him. In such cases, objectivity and nuance are cast aside, opening the door to only the most negative presentation of facts and events.

That was the case with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, enabling the Bush administration to exaggerate the danger from Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction with little dissent from the U.S. press corps. It was also the case with Arafat.
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http://consortiumnews.com/2004/111604.html

that Arafat was anything short of the antichrist or portray him as a moderate voice in an extremist climate you will be pilloried...sorry.

:)

this should be on comedy central.

"Arafat said he had succeeded in stopping dozens of planned attacks and arrested the fanatics"

By paying them? By harboring them ? Lying pos.

And who did he arrest ? Show me ANY list.


Thanks for the laugh.....nice post-mortum bj.

I knew you'd love it.

I knew you did.

BTW...enjoy yourself.....post this little bit of necrophillic fellatio.....from one of your heroes. Now don't get all teary-eyed on me Forkboy.



http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041129&s=shapiro

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before you go on , the person i was referring to was...:puke:....

A**M S***iro..... I wont dignify his name by spelling it all out.


Lighten up , dude....its saturday.B-)

Its all good.

I have no urge to be buddy buddy with you.

Why dont you back up the charge about Adam Shapiro then? Find a post where I've ever said anything about him at all.You know you wont be able to...so that means your charge is total shit.

Stuff the lighten up shit.You're wrong no matter which day it is.

In that case , I want to issue a public and heartfelt apology.

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"if one is confident of ones position, such overly dramatic twisting of facts and events is deemed necessary?"

Ohhhh....you mean like claiming the house in the rachel corrie incident was destroyed...WHEN IT WASN'T!!!

wow...SUCH OVERLY DRAMATIC TWISTING OF FACTS.

short term memory problems or just denial.

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GOT a STICKY cap-lock