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Old 07-07-2012, 03:09 AM
 
Location: Near Manito
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He DID have a Jewish dentist, though....

And a Palestinian barber.
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Old 07-07-2012, 03:11 AM
 
Location: Springfield, Ohio
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Yes, I don't see the point of assassinating Arafat when he was aged and feeble. Not that I don't think Israel is completely capable of doing it, but I don't understand what their motivation would be at that point in time.
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Old 07-07-2012, 03:14 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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How much money did his wife get after he died? That would be my first choice.
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Old 07-07-2012, 04:45 AM
 
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Does a bear crap in the woods?

Israel has a fast reactor at Dimona to make the stuff and you need polonium to make nuclear weapons. Isreal has a really good intelligence agency called Mossad. So I would be shocked if they didn't pull this off and are not using it more often!
Arafat had a lot of enemies.

Could have been them or it could have been his own party rivals that wanted the old man OUT and also get hold of the billion or so he had stashed away.

He died about a year after this stuff came out....
Yasser Arafat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Note how his cousin died a year later and that arafat himself had previously been targeted by palestinian rivals with a rocket attack.
Moussa Arafat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frankly, I don't think it was Israel because they'd have killed him long ago and not failed, had they wanted to assassinate him.

Anyone ignoring the previous and subsequent inter-palestinian assination attempts is either ill-informed or has a raging boner for Israel.
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Old 07-07-2012, 04:47 AM
 
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How much money did his wife get after he died? That would be my first choice.
Plenty. And she refused the autopsy.....

I did read that the PLO guys that took over basically demanded the keys to the billion + fund arafat had socked away....on pain of death. They still left her enough to live very very well though.
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Old 07-07-2012, 07:48 AM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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When are the Palestinian People going to face the fact the their leader Arafat, Embezzeled Biillions of dollars slated for their cause so now the wife and daughter live like a Queen and Princess in another county while they suffer?

Here's some reading from Ma'an:
Analysis: President Abbas, if you don't want to fight, negotiate | Maan News Agency
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Old 07-08-2012, 08:54 PM
 
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When are the Palestinian People going to face the fact the their leader Arafat, Embezzeled Biillions of dollars slated for their cause so now the wife and daughter live like a Queen and Princess in another county while they suffer?

Here's some reading from Ma'an:
Analysis: President Abbas, if you don't want to fight, negotiate | Maan News Agency
Many people don't want to discuss this.

Especially the raging anti-israel crew around here. Hey Israel does a lot of bad stuff but to focus on them only is laughable in that part of the world.

It's important to understand that the people controlling palestine and gaza get rich off the conflict.....

There are no good guys in that conflict.
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Old 07-08-2012, 08:56 PM
 
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Great thread though.

All the people rushing to the thread crying "it was the jews" are basically showing that they've done just enough research to reinforce their prejudice. ugh.

Doesn't make Israel right. But it does point out the ignorant anti-semites.......
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Old 07-08-2012, 09:00 PM
 
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Anyone make the connection yet on how interestingly Putin makes a visit to Isreal a week before this story broke?

They dont call him Polonium Putin for nothing.

Or even darker yet is Putin being framed.

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Old 07-08-2012, 11:57 PM
 
Location: Where they serve real ale.
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Arafat died from AIDS and he kept several "rent boys" on speed dial. I thought everyone knew that. It's also why the Palestinian Authority has always kept his medical records sealed because they didn't want the Palestinian street finding out their hero was gay and died from AIDS. Personally, I don't care if someone is gay and I think everyone should have equal rights including the right to marry but I do get tired of the BS where they try to hide what the media already knew.
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