Dru Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=941970&tw=wn_wire_story this could mark a change in mideast politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 it could. or it could mark no change at all. it's not like his dying will occur while he was in the middle of, you know, doing something (unless you subscribe to those pundits' views that he's in cahoots with terrorists). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Quite a shame that his life's work actually had a massively negative impact on his major ambition - if you believe that the said ambition was actually Palestinian statehood. If he was intent on discrediting this cause with tactics that were sure to fail on the millitary, political, and moral levels then the man was a spectacular success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_harpell Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 A big update in middle east politics today is the recent accepting of the gaza withdrawl plan of Sharon. This seems like a step in the right direction. Of course, the religious right on both sides are crying bloody murder, but at this point I would like to leave them out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 For once, I agree with something Sharon is doing. I admire him for sticking up to the opposition in his own party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_harpell Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 NetenYahoo was really trying to demolish this whole enterprise. That man will have a special place in hell I am sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Sharon was backed into a corner, he had no choice but to do something I'm sure that Arafat will find some way to screw it up... He might get exposed for the total fruad that he is. A very strange situation indeed, the Palistinians need Isreal to go away. As soon as this happens, the population will reject any government that suggests peace with Isreal. It is hard to get international respect when you don't have a country, with not much hope of one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 Lookin' fly in a leisure suit: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted October 28, 2004 Author Share Posted October 28, 2004 He traded in his checkered tablecloth for a tuque... eh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Yngve Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=941970&tw=wn_wire_story this could mark a change in mideast politics. I think many Israelis would appreciate a Palestinian leader who has not had a long history of terrorism and who is better capable of controlling his own people. I haven't been following things enough to know who will fill the void left by Arafat and if there will be a power struggle. I was hoping for better from Arafat in the past ten years. I was thinking that maybe since he was getting old, he wanted to leave the world knowing he did something really good and left a lasting impact. Arafat was off to a decent start, but I think things totally went afoul with Sharon came into power (actually before then, when Sharon basically spit in the face of the Palestinians by entering a contested mosque). I think the ill-timed assassination of Rabin (by some fucking rightwing Israeli assholes) derailed much of the peace process. Anyway, Israel's kinda of between a rock and a hard place. Peace isn't going to get any easier as the years go on. The impoverished Palestinian population is growing rapidly , and they're only getting poorer. That isn't making them happier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 And this just in....Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonanon Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 He traded in his checkered tablecloth for a tuque... eh! 'Bout time. That guy was always just a nice suit and a shave away from having his own country. How many died so that he wouldn't have to learn to speak English? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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