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"It's too late for the French military, or the discredited 'wife', or
America's Palestinian Fix-It Man Nabil Sha'ath, to have any
credibility. They've all now had plenty of extra time to doctor
the reports and destroy the evidence. Only a totally independent
full-scale investigative Commission of Inquiry and complete autopsy
would have any chance of being credible at this point."

MIDDLEEAST.ORG - MER - Washington - 17 November: With the 'Stealth Assassination' of Yasser Arafat, following a campaign to kill or imprison most of the popular Palestinian leaders that was greatly stepped up when Ariel Sharon became Israeli Prime Minister, the Arab-Israeli conflict does indeed enter a new phase. But the political cancer has already considerably metastacized region-wide and the 'two-state' cure is not really any longer possible.

The Americans and Europeans -- with a considerable group of supportive personalities, organizations, and media under their influence -- will keep attempting to claim a 'new opportunity for peace'. The Israelis will pretend to play along in one way or another while in reality further working to expand their control, build their major settlements, complete their Apartheid Wall, and imprison all Palestinians within individual towns and villages as nowhere else in the world.

What the Palestinians will now do, and whether the despised U.S. and Israeli approved 'new Palestinian leadership' -- Abu Mazen, Abu Ala, and Nabil Sha'ath -- will be able to keep the lid on and stay in power, remains to be seen. Tensions have never been greater as the attack against Abu Mazen last weekend makes very evident.

Immediately after the weekend gun attack on Abu Mazen and shouting attack on Nabil Sha'ath, Abu Ala, the 'Prime Minister', said he was now appealing to the French Military Hospital to reveal whatever it was that killed Yasser Arafat. But it's now too late for the French military, or the discredited 'wife', or America's Palestinian Fix It Man Nabil Sha'ath, to have any credibility. They've all now had plenty of extra time to doctor the reports and destroy the evidence. Only a totally independent full-scale investigative Commission of Inquiry and complete autopsy would have any chance of being credible at this point.

Even as Arafat's body was being flown to Cairo last Wednesday his personal physician of 22 years publicly cried foul and 'demanded' an 'official death inquiry' and 'autopsy'. He further revealed that before Arafat was taken to Paris those around him tried hard to prevent his condition from being known but that he had concluded the most likely diagnosis was a mysterious 'blood poisoning'. Furthermore it was not said in advance that Arafat was being taken to a 'military hospital' and once there the doctors made no contact with Arafat's long-time personal physician, refused to let him come to Paris, and did not even contact him to obtain Arafat's private medical records or previous test results.

The major corporate media worldwide has been quite mum and manipulated about all that has happened, including most of the PA and Israeli controlled Palestinian media. But as word of more of the details continues to leak out the Israelis have been active trying to further confuse and sully Arafat's reputation by circulating nasty rumors that Arafat really died of AIDS complications as a result of his homosexuality, and then in today's Jerusalem Post that he died of liver disease usually associated with alcohol drinkers.

MER was the first international news source to report not only that Arafat has been blood poisoned and 'Stealth Assassinated' but that just days after he arrived in Paris he was all but legally dead, even as his 'wife' was proclaiming he 'was well' and would return to lead his people, even as Nabil Sha'ath was going on television programs worldwide saying Arafat was not in a coma, not being kept artificially alive, and could yet recover. Then came 'wife' Suha's brief hysterical outburst about a 'great conspiracy' to kill her husband, followed quickly by a rushed visit to Paris of the Palestinian troika (Abu Mazen, Abu Ala, and Sha'ath) where she was threatened and silenced for a reported $22 million yearly sum. And then, just after the troika completed the cover up and funeral arrangements, Arafat's death was finally announced, his body rushed to Cairo for a quick military funeral -- no public and no eulogies -- and then rushed to Ramallah where he was quickly sealed in concrete, this time the Israelis going on a war footing and preventing Palestinians throughout the occupied territories from attending.

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