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PUBLIC THREATS TO KILL ARAFAT FROM THE ISRAELIS

These are some of the public threats in the past few years. One can only
imagine what has been said when the cameras and microphones were not present.


Israeli Cabinet, September 11, 2003: "Recent day's events have proven again that Yasser Arafat is a complete obstacle to any process of reconciliation. ... Israel will act to remove this obstacle in the manner, at the time, and in the ways that will be decided on separately."

Ariel Sharon: “We took action against Ahmed Yassin and Abdelaziz Rantisi (both assassinated) and a few other murderers when we thought the time was right. On the matter of Arafat we will operate in the same way, when we find the convenient and suitable time. One needs to find the time and do what has to be done.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3654928.stm

Ariel Sharon: “I wouldn’t suggest either one of them should feel secure. I wouldn’t propose that any insurance company gives them coverage" (reference to Arafat and other Palestinian leaders). www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/411795.html

Editorial, The Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem, Israel, 11 Sept 2003: “The world will not help us; we must help ourselves. We must kill as many of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders as possible, as quickly as possible, while minimizing collateral damage, but not letting that damage stop us. And we must kill Yasser Arafat, because the world leaves us no alternative.... Arafat’s death at Israel’s hands would not radicalize Arab opposition to Israel. The current jihad against us is being fueled by the perception that Israel is blocked from taking decisive actions to defend itself…. Killing Arafat, more than any other act, would demonstrate that the tool of terror is unacceptable.”

Ehud Olmert: Deputy Prime Minister of Israel told Israel Radio that killing Arafat "is definitely one of the options" under consideration by the government.

International Herald Tribune, 24 September 2003


Silvan Shalom: Israel's foreign minister said yesterday in an apparent attempt to soften remarks by the vice premier who said that assassination was an option. Israel has not adopted a formal decision to kill Yasser Arafat”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/16/world/main573485.shtml

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2003/09/16/story892785356.asp

Tuesday, September 15th & 16th, 2003






Prepared with the help of Cherifa Sirry in Cairo/Egypt

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