Arafat: Willing to Die a Martyr

[DuctapeFatwa]

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said on Wednesday he would be willing to die a "martyr" and would use his machinegun to defend himself if Israeli troops try to exile or assassinate him.

"I am a Palestinian soldier...I will use my gun to defend not only myself but also defend every Palestinian child, woman and man and to defend the Palestinian existence,"..

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20030917_498.html

[Ashcroft Kutcher]

1. geez

People wonder why the Palenstians ralley around him. I would support Bush if he talked like that.

[bluesoul]

6. Ashcroft Kutcher

How about Arien Sharon, the war criminal that even Israel found guilty for Sabra & Shatila. Yet he is still prime minister and has said a lot of things (let alone done) that no democratic state would tolerate. If Arafat is the problem, then I wonder what Sharon is. And he is supported (and elected) by the Israeli people :eyes:

[papau]

2. Arafat is best at resisting, saying NO, willing to die --he just can't say

yes to peace if that means Israel remains a Jewish State - meaning no right of return that turns Israel into an Arab majority population state.

[TakebackAmerica]

3. Bad Move

Isreal would shoot it's self in the foot i f it killed Arabfat.
He would become a martyr and this would further radicalize the Palestinian youth.

[Myra]

4. Of course he'd be a martyr if the he was murdered!!!

I mean, how friggen stupid are the Israeli leaders
to even consider killing him?! I'm not saying I like
Arafet (not even close). But wouldn't murdering
him insure there'd never be peace between Israel
and Palestine? Duh?

Godamn...it's a world gone mad.

[FlemingsGhost]

5. That's exactly why Israel didn't kill him long ago... (n/t)

Arafat may be a murderous jackal, but the man is not stupid.

[LeftIsBest]

7. Our consistent support for Israel...

is our biggest problem. I am saddened by this because most of America is so ignorant and so tolerating of Bush. let me say this, I truly believe America will never have the opportunity of reaching levels of peace and prosperity like it did in the 1990's if Bush get elected to another term. He will do permanent damage.

[Nottingham]

8. Yes & Bush & Israel are making him into One

:bounce:

[reprobate]

9. The problem with the mid east is the fundamentalists.

I mean the fundamentalists on BOTH sides. The palestinians have their hamas, which won't bend an inch towards peace and will only accept an isreal without jews.

Isreal has their own fundamentalists, the orthodox religious right, that believes in the jews taking over the entire area.

If somehow their gods could remove both of them, we would have peace quite quickly after that. The people of both sides want peace. The fundamentalists on both sides want war. Without war they both lose any political power they might have.

[maxsolomon]

10. don't forget the CHRISTIAN fundies in america

they are blocking peace, too, with their millenial support of israel.

monotheist fundamentalists are the biggest cause of misery in history. jew/christian/muslim/mormon/whatever.

[FlemingsGhost]

12. The problem with the WORLD is the fundamentalists...

Mind you, a great deal of religious/cultural intolerance grows in our own garden.

[StandWatie]

11. good deal

Seriously, he's more effective dead than alive anyway. He would be remembered for everything good he did and the bad would be forgotten just like everyone else who dies for a cause. He would be ten times the leader he is now dead.