COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JONATHAN COOK IN INTIFADA
PALESTINE
There is little doubt that Arafat was murdered, and by the
agency of Mossad.
About that time, Israel had reached a huge head of steam
over Arafat. He wasn't permitted to attend even Christmas services, and then
his compound was partly wrecked by Israeli tanks in the clearest personal
threat.
Sharon had a meeting with George Bush, and he was reported
by a few sources as asking Bush if he could be released from Israel's promise
to not harm Arafat.
Bush, always the insipid and obsequious fool with Sharon,
was reported as having readily agreed. It wasn't a great deal of time after
that that Arafat died.
The Israelis may well have employed a dissident Palestinian
to do the actual job, something which is a common practice with outfits like
the CIA, who for example once used a reputed Castro insider to try killing
Castro.
But please, there are only a tiny number of sources on the
planet for radioactive Polonium, and one of them is Israel's nuclear industry.
I think it more than likely here with his suggestions about
who killed Arafat that the unelected Abbas wants to point the finger at a
political rival rather than reveal any truth.
Abbas is pretty much a sad creature of Israel's. He is
allowed, every once in a while, to do or say some seemingly challenging thing
to reinforce his “creds” with his own people, but, in the end, Israel is
quietly happy with him.
Of course, Israel would prefer there were no Palestinian
government at all and, indeed, no Palestinians, but so long as it must keep up
pretenses, Abbas is their man.
Readers may just have noticed that Israel never likes
democratic leaders in its neighborhood. It likes unelected strongmen, while
pretending otherwise, Arab “irrationality” and penchant for dictatorship being
great propaganda phony talking points with the outside world for “the Mideast’s
only democracy.”
That is why it hates Hamas. That was why it hated the elected
Morsi government in Egypt and undoubtedly had it put on a CIA list for
restorative action, restorative of military dictator ship.
