Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, his pistol on a table before him, gave one telephone interview after another to Arab TV stations as Israeli tanks rumbled below his window. He stopped only when aides whisked him away when his office came under fire, Palestinian officials said. "They are firing directly at Arafat's office. They are targeting him. His life is in danger. The situation is very, very dangerous," Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said by telephone. The army denied firing at his office. Arafat was not hurt.
"Nobody is shaken, afraid, or retreating," Arafat told Qatar-based al-Jazeera television in a calm voice. "We are going to Jerusalem, giving millions of martyrs on the way," he added.
If the world is really lucky, Yasser will be one of the millions, and close to the head of the line. It's about time he got his 72 flat-chested 12-year-olds and let the rest of us try and live in a world that's not built on a foundation of dead bodies.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Friday that Israel has assured the U.S. government that Palestinian President-for-Life Yasser Arafat will not be harmed or captured during the incursion into his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Damn. No daisy farm? I'm so disappointed. So are millions of others...
Steven den Beste thinks the Israelis will bump him off, maybe "accidentally."
I think they'll be careful not to. I also think it'll be a mistake. |