ARAFAT WANTS TO NEGOTIATE "PEACE"...FOR
SRI LANKA! *********************************************************
"He is a political animal of psychopathic predisposition...
He hates those who command intellect or culture and
he despises intellectuals." *********************************************************
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"YES...I AM READY!" - Yasser Arafat
[MER - Having brought little but misery, dispossession,
and near civil war to his own people, Yasser Arafat is now parading the
world as pretend President of a non- existent Palestinian State. Half of
his people languish in refugee camps or in exile; the other half are in
the process of being corralled onto "autonomous" self- policing, and dispersed,
Ghettos ironically reminiscent of the Jewish European past. MER has recently
received from Palestinians damning indictments of Arafat and the "PA" which
will be made made available here in coming weeks. Today, for "MER Joke
of the Week", the following wire service report of Arafat's offer to negotiate
a Sri Lankan "peace"!]
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ARAFAT OFFERS TO NEGOTIATE
SRI LANKAN PEACE!
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(SNS News Service - 3/25) Visiting PLO Leader Yassir Arafat
called for peace in Sri Lanka and offered to mediate a settlement to the
country's ethnic war that has killed more than 50,000 people. Arafat told
a meeting here shortly after talks with Sri Lankan President Chandrika
Kumaratunga that he was willing to help restore peace in the island where
Tamil Tiger guerrillas are fighting for a separate state. "I am under the
disposal of the friendly people of Sri Lanka," Arafat said. "We are now
facing a new order. The order of the new order is peace. I offer all my
effort and support for you to reach a settlement." Asked if he was willing
to be a mediator between the Colombo government and its warring partner,
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Arafat said: "Yes. I am ready."
"I am offering it officially now," Arafat said at a Palestinian friendship
meeting here. Arafat also held talks with Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike
who had strongly supported the PLO.
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[MER - A Palestinian living in the U.S. has the following
to say
about Arafat's new discovery of the importance of his
personally
negotiating a Sri Lankan "peace":
"Since the collapse of the USSR, and the move of the Sri
Lankans to fill the vacuum that was created...the world was never the same.
I think the reason Arafat offered his mediation must be that he is trying
to get the Sri Lanka government to exert pressure on Israel to implement
the "peace of the brave" deal. Since the USA is not exerting the pressure
needed to do that, Sri Lanka is our last hope. I think Arafat knows the
consequences well, if God forbid that the Sri Lanka Civil war continues.
He knows the threat that will cause on the distribution and supplement
of Tea to the Arab world. Without Sri Lankan tea the people in the region
will be walking and feeling like one who just smoked two pack of weeds.
And since we operate heavy machinery in the Arab world (which might be
our brains) one needs to be conscious and alert, which only can be the
case if we drink Sri Lankan tea. Arafat is good in throwing the ball around,
and forcasting disasters, and I think the ball now is in the Sri Lankan
court and I hope it stays there."
Saad
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[MER - And a Palestinian living in the West Bank with
excellent sources of information and credibility, writes
the following about Arafat:]
"The collision between Arafat and
the Zionist regime in Israel is reaching a new level of sophistication.
He may not be a frank collaborator, but who cares as he is fulfilling his
designed role. Arafat cares only about himself, his status and his appearance.
He is obsessed with the way he is received, even when he is met by his
subordinate officers or his pawn ministers, the ceremony has to be formal
with flags and national anthem and it must be the first item on the TV
news. He has to be "respected" in public eye. What is important for him
is to feel important. He is obsessed with power and the show of power.
He managed through money and power to corrupt every one around him, every
one. He hates those who command intellect or culture and he despise intellectuals.
He has no understanding of civility, morality or decency. He is a political
animal of psychopathic predisposition. His aim justifies his means. His
aim is himself, nothing else. Arafat tries hard to demolish the remains
of the Palestinian civil society. He marginalised the elected legislative
council, undermined the civil courts, tortured human rights activists,
attacked civil liberties, suppressed newspapers, intimidated political
opposition and spread an atmosphere of fear. Arafat monopolized Palestinian
economy, established his own companies, controlling import and export,
investment and development. It is almost impossible today to do any business
without partnership with Arafat's men or paying commission. Some are forced
to pay a frank ransom. Arafat denies the legislative council any role except
the ceremonial. The only resolution that was allowed to be executed was
the council decision to call for a protest strike day against Israel's
settlement policy. Arafat refused to discuss the peace agreement with the
council. He even refused the council to discuss the infamous Hebron agreement.
The Palestinian official TV station was ordered not to broadcast the Council's
deliberations."
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