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| You have been disturbed by: Home > Magazine | 17th May |
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 Comment Removing Arafat good for peace, Sharon quite rightly says In his most balanced report yet, DeadBrain's Middle East correspondent Ruben Goldman says Arafat is a war mongering zealot who has to go. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has quite sensibly suggested that the death of Yasser Arafat will be good for the peace process. US government sources say the move will place the Palestinian leader on a "wider international stage", but there's obviously no way it will also lead to a massive escalation in violence. A few Arab states have even tried to get a UN Security Council resolution to thwart Sharon's visionary move towards a peaceful settlement. Thankfully, the Americans have vetoed it – and there's no chance of anybody taking any action without a UN resolution. They might always get one out of the General Assembly, but nobody pays any attention to what they say anyway. Senior Israeli figures have cited Arafat's commitment to the US-led "road map to peace" as a clear example of his determination to continue the unrest that has blighted the region since September 2000. Sharon's spokesman Dr. Ra'anan Gissin said Arafat was "a major obstacle to the strategy of peace", adding that he had "[brought] suffering to his own people [and] scuttled the peace process." Gissin went on to say that Israel had no complaint with the people of Palestine: he only had a problem with the man the Palestinians had chosen as their representative. "Arafat is a terrorist leader," he said. "We have no war with the Palestinian people and their aspirations." While some extremists believe that the "road map" was the only plausible hope for a lasting peace in the Middle East, the Sharon administration has quite sensibly concluded that there can be no accord until the Palestinians give up on the idea of ever getting large sections of their country back, or of ever being allowed to visit the bits of it they want most. Although the "road map" was an American idea, senior Israeli figures remain confident that the US will come to see Arafat's commitment to it as clear evidence that the democratically elected leader was opposed to anything but continuing violence. Sharon's senior foreign policy advisor Zalman Shoval said, "In principle the Americans share our opinion that Arafat is an obstacle, not a solution to the problem." "If one wants to be absolutely consistent, removing Saddam Hussein, which was the right thing to do, is not all that different from removing Yasser Arafat." Shoval made it quite clear that there would have been no violence at all if the entire population of Palestine had just ignored the continued occupation of their homeland, adding that "Arafat is a mega-terrorist, responsible for the deaths of hundreds, thousands of people." Since the most recent uprising began in 2000, hostilities have led to the deaths of 806 Israelis and only 2,414 Palestinians. A number of pro-Palestinian extremists have voiced disapproval for the Israeli plan. Among them was the UK's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw. His mind clearly addled by fumes from his pothead son's bedroom, Straw said in a statement, "We have repeatedly made clear to the Israeli government that the expulsion of Chairman Arafat would be wrong." "I urge Israel not to allow justified anger at the continuing violence to lead to actions that will undermine both the peace process and Israel's own interests," he continued. While clearly insane, Straw is not alone in his blind admiration of the psychotic towel-headed war-monger. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that expelling Arafat would be "unwise". It should be remembered that Annan comes from Ghana, where more than half of the adult population are completely illiterate. Bolstered by so much fanatical support, it might be expected that Arafat would respond by being defiant. However 20 months in a basement - pinned down by the Israeli army – has given the PLO chairman time to think about what he has done. "They can kill me," he said. "They have bombs." Previous page | Next Issue: 27th September
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