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January 06, 2003
Even Arafat Knows
Touche, Calomino!
Even Arafat knows that the Palestinian conflagration is niether the cause nor the motivation for bin Laden and Al Quada.
(Exploiting the Palestinians: Everyone's doing it.
by Max Boot 01/13/2003, Volume 008, Issue 17 )
IN AN INTERVIEW LAST MONTH with Britain's Sunday Times, Yasser Arafat rebuked Osama bin Laden for seeking to exploit the Palestinians' cause for his own ends. "Why is bin Laden talking about Palestine now? . . . He never helped us. He was working in another, completely different area and against our interests," Arafat was quoted as saying. "I'm telling him directly not to hide behind the Palestinian cause."
But for the really good part, skip a few paragraphs:
On December 2, the Tel Aviv daily newspaper Ma'ariv printed a fascinating interview with a businessman and former military intelligence officer named Ozrad Lev. He claimed that he and his former business partner, Yossi Ginossar, had undertaken extensive and lucrative dealings with Muhammad Rashid, Arafat's chief financial adviser. In return for fat management fees, they set up Swiss bank accounts into which Rashid transferred more than $300 million of PA money, with Arafat's apparent authorization. Lev said he decided to go public after $65 million mysteriously disappeared.
Who is Yossi Ginossar? ...Ginossar is a leading "dove" who sits on the executive board of the Peres Center for Peace... Ginossar's position as envoy to the Palestinians allowed him privileged access to the highest councils of power. He participated in the 2000 Camp David talks, where he pushed Barak to make greater concessions. And, according to the Jerusalem Post, when the Gaza Strip was declared a military zone and closed to Israeli travelers, Ginossar was chauffeured to Arafat's office in Shin Bet armored cars.
And people think I'm cold hearted because I oppose spending on foreign aid! I have to give Bush and Powell credit for wanting to establish some written qualification parameters. Enough with the unsupervised hand-outs.
Posted by crandal at January 6, 2003 01:38 PM