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Arafat revives spirit of Oslo. Really.
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has said an Israeli threat to exile him is meant to eradicate the self-rule Palestinians won in peace deals a decade ago.
| Actually, I'd say it was meant to get rid of Yasser, but who'm I to say? |
"The danger here concerns Israel's determination to cancel the Palestinian partner and the Palestinian Authority," Arafat told visiting diplomats at his battered headquarters in the West Bank city of RamAllah.
"Dominique! Yasser is in great danger! We must dispatch diplomats to protect him!"
"Immediately, mon president!" |
Arafat said the peace process was "facing the most critical time since the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993 ... but I reaffirm before you that despite the incitement and Israeli threats, the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership are committed to the peace process.
| "Yes! We are determined that the entire Middle East, the entire world in fact, will be dumped into the peace processor and pureed!" |
"No one can deport me from my homeland, and the homeland of my fathers and forefathers," Arafat, 74, said as thousands demonstrated for the third day running to show support for him both on his own doorstep and elsewhere in the occupied territories. Saturday was the 10th anniversary of Oslo's signing, which Palestinians hailed as the first step to independence. Arafat's co-signatory, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist two years later.
| See how far we've come in only ten short years? Just think where we can be in fifty! |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-09-13 |
