You can't do that to me! I am the 'elected' leader of the Palestinian people!
Posted on 04/12/2002 2:56:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Cancelled, not "on hold" and not "postponed".
Let's not get our hopes up here.....they have said .....postponed...."off" now cancelled....all within the last hour....it could change in the next few minutes!!!!!!!!
The meeting might be rescheduled for Sunday, a senior U.S. official said. But Powell's spokesman said the secretary "expects a clear denunciation of terrorism" and of the new bombing in the meantime.
Arafat has been reluctant to make such a statement, with support for suicide attacks running high among Palestinians in light of Israel's military offensive in the West Bank.
I'm happy about the meeting being cancelled, but things will only escalate from here, I'm afraid. Maybe that's what needs to happen. Whichever - Pray hard.
You can't do that to me! I am the 'elected' leader of the Palestinian people!
He will unleash all the homicide bombers he can muster..
Someone better increase Powell and zinni's security detail......fast....!
Arafat is cornered!!!!
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JERUSALEM, April 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell has cancelled his meeting with Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat on Saturday, Powell's spokesman said,
but a U.S. official said the talks might go ahead on Sunday.
Referring to a female suicide bomber who killed six other
people and injured 90 more in a central Jerusalem market, the
spokesman Richard Boucher said: "In light of today's
developments, the secretary will not be meeting with Chairman
Arafat Saturday."
But a senior State Department official told reporters on
condition of anonymity that the meeting could be rescheduled.
"Sunday is a possibility," he said.
Boucher said Powell wanted Arafat to condemn the attack but
did not say it was a condition for the meeting. "The secretary
condemns in the strongest possible terms today's terrorist
attack and expects Chairman Arafat to do so as well," he said.
The State Department spokesman, travelling with Powell on a
crisis Middle East mission, said Powell would meet aid workers
in Jerusalem on Saturday to investigate humanitarian problems in
the West Bank following Israel's incursions into Palestinian
towns.
((Jerusalem newsroom, 972-2-537-0502,
jerusalem.newsroom@reuters.com))
Although we had to suffer through a week of armchair FR "experts" b!tching about Powell's trip, the U.S. looks much more "reasonable" to the Arab states for having Powell plan on a peace meeting with the terrorists only to have to cancel it "at the last minute" due to yet another bombing homicide. It always seems that those who understand geopolitics the least complain the most, and end up looking silly after the fact...
It was The Dark Side. Or, The Press. Or, the Euro-dorks. For some strange reason, Bush let them play. Or got played.
Then Israel should unleash hell.
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