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lucky wilbury
10-19-2004, 01:06 AM
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40988

Yasser Arafat endorses Kerry
Thinks Democratic senator 'better for Palestinian cause'

Posted: October 18, 2004
8:35 p.m. Eastern


By Aaron Klein
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is hoping John Kerry wins the presidential election in November, several Palestinian leaders told WorldNetDaily.

Arafat deputy and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told WND in an exclusive interview that while "we do not involve ourselves in internal American politics," at the same time "our region has been sliding deeper and deeper into chaos because of certain policies over the past few years, and this needs to change."

While he would not directly endorse Kerry, it was clear Erekat was implying the PA wants a change in White House leadership: "If things continue the way they are, if certain policies toward our region are maintained in the years to come, there is going to be a lot of violence on both sides."

A prominent Arafat aide who asked that his name be withheld spoke to WorldNetDaily from Arafat's battered Ramallah compound.

"The president [Arafat] is frustrated with Bush's policies," he said. "The president [Arafat] thinks Kerry will be much better for the Palestinian cause and for the establishment of a Palestinian state."

Also today, PA Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is unsure if George W. Bush is re-elected to office, and he complained the U.S. presidential election was stalling the Middle East peace process.

"During an American election and the three months after, allies of the United States should do more work than they would do otherwise." Shaath told a news conference.

While the comments mark the first time the PA has endorsed Kerry on the record, it has not been a secret that Arafat is frustrated with Bush's leadership.

Israel Military Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Ze'evi has warned Arafat is biding his time until November, when the Palestinian leader hopes President Bush will be voted out of office and Ariel Sharon's coalition government will fall.

"Arafat is waiting for November in the hope George Bush will lose the election to John Kerry," Ze'evi told Army Radio in July. "He also hopes that the Israeli government will fall, so he can take center stage diplomatically."

Since 2002, Washington has fully backed Jerusalem's decision to isolate the Palestinian Authority president, who Sharon says is directly involved in planning terrorism and is an obstacle to peacemaking.

Many Israeli and American Jewish leaders have been expressing concern that a Kerry administration will cause more violence in the Middle East and could bring Arafat back to power. They say they are worried about Kerry's statements of coordinating American foreign policy with the Europeans, some of whom favor talks with Arafat, and are disturbed by Kerry's appointment of several former Clinton Mideast policy directors as advisers, particularly former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk.

Many blame Clinton's failed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict –which sought Israeli territorial concessions for promises of peace by Arafat and ignored indications of growing Palestinian militancy and violations of security-reform agreements – for partially causing the current intifada.

Indyk, who helped devise the 1993 Oslo Accords, was a driving force behind Clinton's assessment of Arafat as a statesman and urged Clinton to accept Arafat as the legitimate ruler of the Palestinians. Under Indyk's advisory, Arafat visited the White House during the Clinton administration 24 times, more than any other world leader during those eight years.

FORD
10-19-2004, 02:06 AM
Wow, an American President who isn't a puppet of Ariel Sharon and the Likud neofascists.... won't that be a fucking tragedy :rolleyes:

lucky wilbury
10-19-2004, 03:11 AM
so kerry getting endorsed by a man who has been responsable for the the deaths of americans for the past 30 years is a good thing to you?

Warham
10-19-2004, 06:47 AM
So Arafat, a 'thug' as O'Reilly calls him, endorses John Kerry.

Interesting.

I'm waiting for the NY Times article in which bin Laden endorses Kerry as well.

ODShowtime
10-19-2004, 08:49 AM
Of course Arafat wants Kerry. Bush wouldn't deal with him! He and Sharon took him out of the process. I'm not casting a judgement on Bush's decision in this matter, but this is not that surprising.

FORD
10-19-2004, 09:18 AM
Bottom line is that no progress will be made in the Middle East without the Palestinian's involvement. Now that's not saying Arafat himself should do the negotiating. I don't think even Arafat himself believes he's the one for the job anymore. But two things are simply facts:

1) Sharon is every bit as much of a vile terrorist as Arafat is, if not worse.

2) The Bush Jr Fraudministration cannot be credible in dealing with this situation because half of them are Likud double agents.

Best approach is Fresh start all around.

Put Kerry in there with a moderate Israeli government and a new Palestinian representative, and see if we can return to the geniune progress that was being made under the leadership of Bill Clinton in the 1990's.

diamond den™
10-19-2004, 09:22 AM
Originally posted by FORD
Bottom line is that no progress will be made in the Middle East without the Palestinian's involvement. Now that's not saying Arafat himself should do the negotiating. I don't think even Arafat himself believes he's the one for the job anymore. But two things are simply facts:

1) Sharon is every bit as much of a vile terrorist as Arafat is, if not worse.

2) The Bush Jr Fraudministration cannot be credible in dealing with this situation because half of them are Likud double agents.

Best approach is Fresh start all around.

Put Kerry in there with a moderate Israeli government and a new Palestinian representative, and see if we can return to the geniune progress that was being made under the leadership of Bill Clinton in the 1990's.

Bill Clinton also made huge efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland which has really made a huge difference to the lives of millions of people.

Bill Clinton's skills as a diplomat are second to none.

;)

ODShowtime
10-19-2004, 09:25 AM
I agree with both of your posts above. Two very good posts.

Sgt Schultz
10-19-2004, 09:35 AM
Originally posted by FORD
Best approach is Fresh start all around.

Put Kerry in there with a moderate Israeli government and a new Palestinian representative, and see if we can return to the geniune progress that was being made under the leadership of Bill Clinton in the 1990's.


Um, yeah, ...right. Didn't this very thing happen in 2000 with Barak / Clinton / Arafat and Arafat walked away and unleased the Intifada? I don't care what "moderate" Palestinian PM they put in there with Kerry and a left winger Israeli PM - the leaders of Islamic Jihad and Hamas are never going to accept it.

The answer is to keep killing Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and members - wherever they are until the Palestinians themselves realize that supporting these organiations is NOT in their best interests and some REAL Palestinan group engages and defeats them. Once the palestinians themsleves have organized their own PEACEFUL movement they will be able to win what they want for themselves - peace, rights and land. Peaceful, nonviolent protests and action will get the world on their side. As long as they keep blowing up kids on buses it's never going to happen.

McCarrens
10-19-2004, 09:48 AM
Originally posted by FORD
Bottom line is that no progress will be made in the Middle East without the Palestinian's involvement.

No, the bottom line is that there will be no progress inthe Middle east until the Second Coming of Christ.

diamondD
10-19-2004, 03:41 PM
FORD, I'd love to hear how you have the knowledge of how many Likud double agents there are. Where do you get this info and aren't you compromising their status by exposing them? Please explain.

*strapping tin-foil beanie tight*

Warham
10-19-2004, 04:12 PM
I'm suprised FORD would believe peace will ever exist in the Middle East by man's hands when he says he's a Christian. If there's ever a peace treaty, you'll know it's near the end, according to the Good Book, because only a superhuman presence will get those two sides together.

John Ashcroft
10-19-2004, 06:03 PM
Not to mention, how many Israeli PMs have tried negotiations with Arafat? And they crossed a wide ideological spectrum. But they shared one thing in common, they all failed.

But yep, it must have been their fault. Not the one who's been a constant through it all.

Big Train
10-19-2004, 06:08 PM
Posted by JA:
But yep, it must have been their fault. Not the one who's been a constant through it all.

I wonder if EVH and AVH have any Palenstine blood in them...ha ha..

lucky wilbury
10-19-2004, 06:10 PM
Originally posted by Big Train
Posted by JA:
But yep, it must have been their fault. Not the one who's been a constant through it all.

I wonder if EVH and AVH have any Palenstine blood in them...ha ha..

one would guess that they do have muslum blood in them considering their mom is indoneisan and indonesia is the largest muslum country in the world