What? Nobody believes that "We Come In Peace" crap anymore?
So here we have a man who won a Nobel Peace Award sitting all alone by
his telephone - don''t work, for another curse has befallen this great
Palestinian Leader - the curse of darkness, they turned of fhis
electricty.....they turned off his water......he sits there, all alone
by a dead telephone....with a big gun before him just waiting for the
bastards........Oh to Go a Great Martyer....a Nobel Peace Award Winner a
Victim of the Zionist Pigs.
What a way to go out - for it is live in fame or go down in flames and
let the Zionists get the blames?
Oh Well Such Is Life Today in Paradise.....but for a Nobel Peace Award
winner to be martyered - murdered in cold blood by cold blooded
assassins - this poor wretch of a man, who only has one suit.
And he not doubt got that at a factory outlet.
So goodbye Arafat - wherever you are.......Praise Allah - Praise the
Lord, but pass that ammunition, brother.
OSaba
Imagine murdering a Nobel Peace Award Winner ==== you know that bum
Clinton wanted one all along, and had he not let his Zionist flunkees
bomb the hell out of Serbia, and tossed that pig out of his office who
brought him a pizza loaded with Ecstacy - who knows - he could say to
Arafat and Sharon, the Head Pig - I Come In Peace....
U.S.
U.S. keeps distance in Mideast messPowell repeats stock condemnation of
Palestinian actionsBy Alan Sipress
THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON, March 30 — The Bush administration, confronted with a
dramatic eruption of Middle East violence and the collapse of peace
efforts, maintained a wary distance yesterday and repeated its
long-standing reproach of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
'We have spoken out clearly and do so again now, for Chairman Arafat
to act, act against those responsible for these acts ...'
— COLIN L. POWELL
secretary of state EVEN AS ISRAELI SOLDIERS besieged
Arafat inside his West Bank compound, raising the prospect he might be
killed, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell focused on recent Palestinian
attacks against Israelis, condemning them in language that has become
the stock of U.S. diplomacy.
"We have spoken out clearly and do so again now, for
Chairman Arafat to act, act against those responsible for these acts and
to make clear to the Palestinian people that terror and violence must
halt now. All those who support peace must reinforce this message,"
Powell said at a hastily arranged news conference.
Except for Powell's carefully scripted remarks, President
Bush's national security team was silent. Officials said U.S. special
envoy Anthony C. Zinni would remain in the Middle East, but they offered
no goals beyond seeing if he could win Israeli and Palestinian adherence
to a cease-fire plan that has met with no success since it was proposed
last June by CIA Director George J. Tenet.
The administration's determination to stay the course
comes in the face of open warfare between Israelis and Palestinians,
heralded by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's declaration he
considers Arafat the "enemy." This new belligerence and the staggering
series of suicide bombings that rocked Israel this week have sabotaged
what some officials believe could be Zinni's last shot at a truce and
dash the hope created by the Arab League's endorsement this week of a
rare Saudi peace proposal.
GREEN LIGHT?
In response, Bush and his senior advisers dispatched
Powell to deliver a message that many observers, including Israelis and
Palestinians, saw as a green light for Sharon.
Though an accomplished public speaker, Powell
conspicuously read from a prepared text, his eyes returning to the page
every few words. Some U.S. officials said the statement did not fully
reflect his own concerns about Israel's armed raid on Arafat's Ramallah
headquarters.
• In Ramallah, a methodical exercise of military might
• Assault spurs criticism of Israeli tactics
The essence had been worked out in discussions President
Bush had with his senior national security team and largely reflected
the thinking of Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld, sources familiar with the deliberations said. A senior
administration official said Cheney's staff had been especially
influential in shaping the message. Cheney and Rumsfeld have long
cautioned against heightening American involvement in trying to resolve
the Middle East conflict, especially if it means crossing Sharon.
In his statement to reporters and a subsequent telephone
conversation with Arafat, Powell called on the Palestinian leader,
pinned down in his headquarters, to move more vigorously against
terrorists. And Powell signaled he was still looking for Palestinian
security forces, engaged in defending the Ramallah headquarters against
the Israeli strike, to cooperate with their adversaries in enforcing a
U.S.-brokered truce.
WHAT ABOUT CIVILIANS? 'Chairman Arafat is the leader of the Palestinian
people, and his leadership is now even more central to trying to find a
way out of this tragic situation.'
— POWELL
Powell's remarks included only a brief expression of
concern about civilian casualties caused by the Israeli raid and a
warning that Arafat should emerge alive.
"While we understand the Israeli government's need to
respond to these acts of terror and the right of the Israeli government
to decide what actions best serve the interest of the Israeli people, we
call on Prime Minister Sharon and his government to carefully consider
the consequences of those actions," he said. "Chairman Arafat is the
leader of the Palestinian people, and his leadership is now even more
central to trying to find a way out of this tragic situation."
But the statement did not include the broader demand for
Israeli restraint that officials said Powell would have preferred. Only
after a reporter asked why he was dwelling on criticism of Palestinians
did Powell say, "We asked the Israelis to show the necessary restraint .
. . so that they do not put Chairman Arafat's life in danger, and they
minimize loss of life with respect to civilians."
Powell said he had been assured by Israeli officials that
they did not plan to permanently occupy Ramallah and are merely hunting
for militants and their weapons. He said he spoke with Sharon on
Thursday evening, as Sharon's Cabinet was meeting and Israeli troops
were closing in on Arafat's headquarters, and was told that Israeli
military operations would not kill or harm the Palestinian leader.
During the telephone call, Sharon repeated previous
understandings with the Bush administration that Israel would not kill
Arafat or precipitate the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, an
Israeli diplomat said.
TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
Powell called Arafat yesterday afternoon and spoke with
him for about a half hour, urging him to step up efforts to contain
militant violence, a State Department official said. Powell also urged
the Palestinian leader to work more closely with Zinni in reaching a
cease-fire, reflecting the administration's judgment that Arafat's
demands have blocked an American effort to reach a compromise, officials
said.
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Earlier yesterday, Zinni also spoke by telephone with
Arafat. A State Department official said Arafat had expressed
appreciation that the United States had decided to keep Zinni in the
region. Arafat had previously complained that he tried early yesterday
to reach U.S. officials for help but had been unable to make contact
because of the time difference.
Powell and his deputy, Richard L. Armitage, also worked
the telephones yesterday, discussing the Middle East with the leaders of
European and Arab governments. Powell spoke twice with Amre Moussa,
secretary general of the Arab League, and with U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan.
GROWING CONCERN AT U.N.
Annan's spokesman issued a statement expressing alarm
about the escalating violence. "Just as the Arab League summit in Beirut
presented a new opening for peace, the enemies of peace have carried out
terrorist attacks against innocent Israeli civilians. The purpose of
these attacks is to undermine any prospect for a political settlement.
Yet destroying the Palestinian authority will not bring peace. It will
bring the region even closer to war," the statement said.
While phone lines buzzed in Foggy Bottom with discussion
about Arafat's fate, Bush remained out of sight at his ranch in
Crawford, Tex., where he is spending Easter weekend. He also ordered his
aides to say as little as possible about the conflict.
A senior administration official said Bush considered the
situation to be fluid and believed nothing could be accomplished by
personally injecting himself.
Staff writer Mike Allen in Crawford, Tex., contributed to
this report.
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