Influential Arab journalist: Arafat must make peace

[GabysPoppy]

Anis Mansour, one of the Arab world's most influential journalists, has called on Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to follow in the footsteps of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and make peace with Israel.

Mansour, who played a vital role in the peace negotiations with Israel during the tenure of President Sadat and was the former editor of the weekly October magazine, said the Palestinians have missed many opportunities because of Arafat.

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Addressing Arafat, the renowned Egyptian journalist, who has written 177 books, added:

"This advice is that you, or whoever represents you, sit and raise the demands before the eyes of the entire world. You and the entire world know that Sadat and Begin adopted a very simple principle – the honorable international custom of 'anything is negotiable.' You must negotiate so you can refuse and agree. No one has demanded and no one is demanding that you kiss and hug Sharon.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1078563911648

I guess because this is from the Jerusalem Post, it's just going to be trashed. For the people who won't bother to even read the article for the same reason will miss this sentance from one of the paragraphs:

"Writing in the Egyptian government daily al-Ahram, Mansour, 79, urged Arafat to listen to those who are more experienced than him."

The Palestinian people's greatest enemy isn't the GOI or the IDF, it's Suja's "sugar daddy". But for those who are willing to cast the blame on Israel for an earthquake in San Francisco, the truth hardly matters.

[drdon326]

1. Bwahahaha

GP...what are the odds that Suja's 'sugar daddy' gives
a rats ass about ACTUALLY making peace ??

That gravy train of $ 3,000,000,000 might come to a
screeching halt.

[Proudlib]

2. Arafat Ain't About Peace

Never has been, never will. His entire career as a politician has been about violence and it makes no difference who the violence is directed at. He caused the deaths of around 20,000 of his own people when he tried to overthrow the government of Jordan; basically started the Civil War in Lebanon after the PLO took up camp there, resulting in tens of thousands dead; and then laid waste to Tripoli after he finally got expelled from Beirut. Small wonder all his regime has accomplished since 1994 is create more death and violence after he set up shop in Gaza and Ramallah. Where Arafat goes, violence follows.

Asking Arafat to make peace would have been like asking Josef Stalin to allow free speach and the right to respectfully voice dissent with the governemnt.

[Muddleoftheroad]

3. Sadat, Begin and others have made peace

Arafat does not WANT to change.

[tinnypriv]

4. "PLO took up camp there"?

Why? Did they like the scenery?

:dunce:

[Proudlib]

5. It Was't The Scenery

Jordan expelled them and Syria wouldn't let them in, so they went to Beirut where the Lebanese government wasn't strong enough to prevent the PLO from establishing a base.

[tinnypriv]

7. And how about the Palestinians?

Who expelled them?

[GabysPoppy]

8. Just about every Arabic country at one time or another

[Resistance]

9. You didn't mention Israel massacring them

so they could steal their land.

[tinnypriv]

10. Sorry

I was using 'Palestinians' in the conventional, non-reactionary way. i.e. the indigenous inhabitants of the Levant.

So, who expelled them?

[ex_jew]

6. Does Hamas even care what Arafat does or doesn't do ?

Somebody please enlighten me. Thanks !