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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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