{"id":559,"date":"2002-01-23T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2002-01-23T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2002-01-23T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2002-01-23T22:56:12","slug":"schlemiel-schlemozzel-hamasnyasser-corporated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Schlemiel, Schlemozzel, Hamas’n’Yasser ‘Corporated…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak furiously branded Yasser Arafat, his one-time partner in peace talks, as a terrorist,<\/a> after the latest attack on the streets of Jerusalem,” AFP reports.<\/p>\n

‘Yasser Arafat happens to behave like a terrorist, he looks like one, he walks like one, he quacks like one, so maybe he is really a terrorist,’ Barak told reporters after meeting with Secretary of State of Colin Powell.<\/p>\n

‘It is about time we tell the truth … about his behavior to be able to draw some conclusions,’ said Barak, who also met national security advisor Condoleezza Rice and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.<\/p>\n

[…]Barak’s meetings Tuesday at the White House and the State Department came hours after a Palestinian gunman ran amok on the streets of west Jerusalem on Tuesday injuring 39 people.<\/p>\n

The United States called on Arafat to immediately do more to crack down on Palestinian militant groups<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sure. Crackdown, Yasser. We’re (yawn) getting really, really tired of this violence-against-innocent civilians nonsense (yawn). We mean it this time (yawn). Get your (yawn) act together. Stop (yawn) firing on Jews.<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that Jerusalem Post<\/i> publisher Tom Rose, writing in The Weekly Standard,<\/i> argues that Palestinian peace is an impossibility <\/a>so long as Arafat’s in power?
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“Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak furiously branded Yasser Arafat, his one-time partner in peace talks, as a terrorist, after the latest attack on the streets of Jerusalem,” AFP reports. ‘Yasser Arafat happens to behave like a terrorist, he looks like one, he walks like one, he quacks like one, so maybe he is really a terrorist,’ Barak told reporters after meeting with Secretary of State of Colin Powell. ‘It<\/p>\n

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