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Arafat calls from deploying UN forces to protect the Palestinians
Arabic News ^ | April 1 2002

Posted on 04/01/2002 8:20:14 AM PST by knighthawk

The chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat said he had informed the US secretary of state Colin Powell that the Palestinian people are in need of deploying UN forces immediately in order to protect the Palestinians from the israeli aggression.

The US continues to show understanding to the Israeli aggressions against the Palestinians as justified. The US President George Bush also continues to lay blame for terrorism on Arafat saying "I have been disappointed in his unwillingness to go a hundred percent toward fighting terror."

On the other hand, Arafat who is besieged by Israeli tanks at his headquarters and is being attacked by what he called US made weopons stressed he will not surrender to the Israeli occupation regardless to the sacrifice.

In a statement he gave on Saturday evening to the US Fox TV from his residence in Ramullah which is besieged by the Israeli forces, Arafat said that the Israeli forces asked him for several times, through loudspeakers to surrender but he refused.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: arafat; palestines; unitednations

1 posted on 04/01/2002 8:20:14 AM PST by knighthawk
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2 posted on 04/01/2002 8:21:11 AM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
I prefer that those forces are used as the anvil to the IDF's hammer.
3 posted on 04/01/2002 8:30:51 AM PST by steveegg
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To: knighthawk
GWB--"I have been disappointed in his unwillingness to go a hundred percent toward fighting terror."

Earth to Bush, Earth to Bush, he hasn't even done 1%. In fact he IS the head terrorist and huge amounts of evidence prove it.

Bush needs to stop trying to keep this non-existent coalition together and do what's right.

4 posted on 04/01/2002 8:33:46 AM PST by liberalism=failure
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To: knighthawk
UN caves to Arafat request...UN Special Forces on the way!


5 posted on 04/01/2002 8:40:56 AM PST by Icthus
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To: Icthus
LOL!
6 posted on 04/01/2002 8:44:09 AM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
Surprisingly, Arafat didn't mention the two unarmed peacekeepers his troops killed last week.
8 posted on 04/01/2002 11:54:42 AM PST by aimhigh
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