- WASHINGTON - The powers that
be have gotten things mostly their way when it comes to the death of the
man Yasser Arafat, as well as they must be thinking to the symbolic end
of the true Palestinian nationalist quest he came to symbolize.
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- Amazingly the assassination of Yasser Arafat is being
covered up right in front of the whole watching world.
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- By at the least a preponderence of all the evidence and
circumstances Arafat was blood poisoned by the Israelis with the help of
turned Palestinians and an American OK. His own personal doctor reached
that diagnosis before being barred from seeing Arafat at the French military
hospital and from speaking out further. After threatening to go public
about the great 'conspiracy you can't imagine' of which she screamed in
her short frantic call to Al-Jazeera Monday, Arafat's 'wife', Suha Tawil,
appears to have been herself threatened and bribed to shut up or else.
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- The announcement of Arafat's death was withheld for some
days as the Israeli and U.S.-approved new 'Palestinian leadership' worked
to coordinate with those in Washington and Jerusalem, in addition to the
French, just how to transfer to themselves as much of Arafat's powers and
monies as they could; how to best take care of the funeral and burial with
the least fanfare they could get away with; and how to position everyone
for the new political pressures and disingenuous 'peace plans' now immediately
ahead.
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- To minimize things as best they could the funeral plan
initially agreed upon before the death announcement was to be a fast and
symbolic Cairo airport funeral. Insufficient, that now has been shifted
to a nearby military club in Heliopolis, near the airport. But both the
public and the Arab League have been pushed aside, Arafat's body will not
be brought to Arab League Headquarters in downtown Cairo, and no special
crypt or monoment is planned.
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- The Egyptian Army and secret police are all over Cairo
today in a massive show of force few can remember since the assassination
of Anwar Sadat in 1981. Visiting dignitaries for Friday's funeral in many
cases will not even overnight in Cairo. And very few if any of the international
dignataries will even be allowed to go to Ramallah in Occupied Palestine
-- though truth be told again very few of the VIPs coming from the Arab
'client regimes' would even want to do so if they could. They've been given
the very kinds of excuses they were looking for.
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- Arafat's body will not be even be brought to Gaza afterall;
and Gazans will remain totally imprisoned behind the Israeli military walls,
fences, and checkpoints unable to go to Ramallah or to prays in Jerusalem
at the Noble Sanctuary.
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- And few Palestinians other than those who actually live
inside now barricaded and walled-in Ramallah will even be able to attend
the burial there on Saturday.
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- Much of this is certainly not as it should be; but the
new 'Palestinian leadership' has been taught a special lesson with the
killing of Yasser Arafat. If the Israelis and the U.S. can manage this
assassination and its aftermath in such a crafty and deceptive manner,
and get away with it all so easily, the message is rather clear:
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- "You Arab and Palestinian 'leaders' have much more
to fear from us (Israel and the U.S.) if you don't play ball than you do
from your own people. On top of all the other leaders we have killed off
or imprisoned one way or another, we can even pull off a 'Stealth Assassination'
of Nobel Peace Prize winner, former most frequent foreign guest to the
White House, and international famed Yasser Arafat because he refused to
do as we told him he must. So beware: COMPLY, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."
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- Israel Poisons Arafat Using Palestinian Collaborators
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- Ariel Sharon Kills and Soon Plans to Bury Yasser Arafat
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