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ARAFAT Update
MIDDLEEAST.ORG - MER - Washington - 10 November: Yasser
Arafat has been all but legally dead for many days now. He has been
kept 'between life and death' in a very 'complex situation' (to use the
crafty words that have come from key officials) for financial and
political reasons rather than for medical reasons. A mad scramble has
been underway by various parties -- including his 'wife' Suha as well
as his U.S. and Israeli-approved successors -- to get as much of the
money and power as they can manage at this critical time. Much more
important however to the Israelis and the Americans -- and to the
Europeans as well -- is what they can all manipulate to happen now with
Arafat finally eliminated.
By a preponderance of the circumstances and the evidence Yasser Arafat
has effectively been stealth assassinated by the Israelis as MER first
reported and explained last Saturday. His
long-time personal physician has been removed from the scene
after announcing he had been blood poisoned. The French 'military
doctors' have been ordered not to reveal the cause of death and the
details of what has happened to Arafat. Most others not playing
ball with the the U.S. and Israeli approved 'new Palestinian
leadership' have been
pushed aside in the past few days. The widely despised 'Palestinian
Foreign Minister', Nabil Sha'ath, long working with Israel and the
U.S., was put in front of the cameras yesterday to attempt to publicly
discredit the death by poisoning verdict and to help confuse and
coverup as much as can be managed before the funeral and burial.
The Israelis never really thought Arafat would be buried in relatively
obscurity in 'a family plot' in Gaza -- though they pushed for it
thinking they just might manage that final insult on top of everything
else. They knew all along the burial would likely take place at the
Muqata in Ramallah and have thus appeared to give their reluctant
'permission' with all kinds of secret restrictions worked out with
their new team of 'Palestinian leaders' -- Sha'ath, Abu Mazen, and Abu
Ala. They are working now to undermine the possibility that Arafat
might first be taken to Arab League Headquarters in Cairo. And
'negotiations' over just what is now going to happen continue to hold
up the official announcement of Arafat's death even as a senior
'approved' Muslim Cleric has been rushed to Paris to give a kind of
religious OK to 'pulling the plug' as soon as the crucial political
details are finally approved by all parties, including Israel and the
Americans.
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