10-27-2004, 05:55 PM | #1 | |
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Arafat in critical condition
Arafat is now in the hospital in critical condition. By the sounds of it he may not live much longer. He is now unable to walk.
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10-27-2004, 06:38 PM | #2 |
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About time the feckin' bugger died. Maybe now we can get an actual chance for peace between Palestine and israel. I'm hoping for the moderates to step in, personally. 'Course it would have to be matched by Israel for there to be any hope. As long as Sharon is saddled with his extremists (and Sharon's not exactly middle-of-the-road either), there will still be problems. maybe the death of arafat will alleviate this though.
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10-27-2004, 11:01 PM | #3 |
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BoP,
Do I detect a loss of the "all is sweetness and light" component of your persona? Or are you that desperate for the ol' bugger to lose his pants permanently?
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10-27-2004, 11:18 PM | #4 |
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"sweetness and light"? *snicker*
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Oh my God... I read "Aratfalthion" and thought "Arat-Falthion" and nearly had a heart attack. Sheeeeze I feel stupid now. I actually just about jumped out of my chair...
Anyways... I think that his death, as BoP said, will probably fix a few problems, but as with any new leader, a whole host of new problems will appear. |
10-28-2004, 08:02 AM | #6 |
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I think his death will create more problems than it will solve. Things will get shaken up, and, when things get shaken up in the Middle East, it ain't pretty. There will probably be a power struggle, and the new leader probably won't be any better than Arafat. Plus the new leader will be anxious to do somthing and solidify his office. New blood isn't always the best thing.
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I'm not sure if it does any good. And can't really see how Arafat did any harm when he was closed in his building (you called it 'compound'? I think its name is the mukata). As Shelob's Hubby said... I think it'd only make mess there, especially when Arafat gave the leadership of the Autonomy to 3 men. I think the new leader will be much weaker than Arafat... we'll see if that's good or bad. |
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Although - I would consider a person who condones suicide bombings to be FAR MORE extremist. Quote:
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Actually, JD, I'd prefer if you didn't read more into what I stated thank you. I acknowledge that Sharon is trying to work towards evacuating the settlements, which is why I stated my statement the way I did (that Sharon was "saddled", in other words, having difficulty due to the extremists putting their respective foots down).
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10-31-2004, 03:51 AM | #11 |
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My opinion is the same as Radagast's. Arafat has the respect of many of his people, if not the obedience of most of them. Many groups of Palestinians are just completely out of anyone's control. If Arafat died, though, any new moderate government would probably be far weaker then his more right-wing government was. Arafat is the only one I see as having any control in this situation, from the Palestinian side. The Palestinians trust him, and that's important. Many of them will not so easily trust the moderates, as was clearly visible with their reaction to the other Palestinian Prime Minister. I don't remember his name; he's the one that had U.S. backing but ended up stepping down.
I think violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would probably escalate, with Yassir Arafat's death.
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I meant to post this earlier - but I forgot. I just wanted to make this comment...
Let's see - Sharon has just gotten passed the withdrawal of settlements and israel from Gaza. He then allows Arafat the capability to LEAVE his compound to go to France for treatment with the a guarantee that he will be able to return. Today in israel there was a suicide bombing in a busy market square which killed a 60 year old man and two woman and injured roughly thirty people - 5 critically. So can anyone tell me what the justification for THIS attack was???? [edit - the latest news says that 4 died now]
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I heard it was a message from Hamas to those who would replace Arafat that they will not simply pacifiy because there is new leadership in place. AND that it was a message to Arafat who had said there would be no attacks while he was out of commision. Basically Hamas is saying we dont answer to anyone. We have our specific agenda and we go by that.
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On the news there was a text message saying (I think) that there was a message from the hospital saying Arafat has leukemia. Is that true?
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That's false, I remember reading that Arafat does not suffer from leukemia. They just reported on CNN that his health is improving.
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Dang, my Swedish still sucks. It's worth noting that that's not the fault of the Swedish news.
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Looks like he may be dead:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,...385027,00.html
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I just heard on the radio during President Bush's press conference a reporter alert the president that Arafat had passed away.
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