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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: AmericanVoter who wrote (27897)5/1/2002 3:09:12 PM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Will wonders never cease? Fisk sounds almost sensible in this interview.

Mostly don't agreee with him but the parallel between Israelis/Palestinians and the French/ Algerians is interesting and fits very well.

About Arafat/israeli relations:

And so it was easy to see why the Israelis wanted to use him.
He was not brought into the Oslo process, and he was not encouraged by
the Americans, and his forces were not trained by the CIA so that he
could lead a wonderful, new Arab state. He was brought in as a colonial
governor to do what the Israelis could no longer do: to control the West
Bank and Gaza.

His task was always to control his people. Not to lead his people. Not
to lead a friendly state that would live next to Israel. His job was to
control his people, just like all the other Arab dictators do...

Conspiracy theory, at its best; the punchline:

-- usually on our behalf. Remember that the Arab states we support -- the Mubaraks
of Egypt, the Gulf kingdoms, the king of Jordan -- when they do have
elections, their leaders are elected by 98.7 percent of the vote. In
Mubarak's case, 0.2 percent more than Saddam!

So Arafat fits perfectly into this lexicon of rule. He's confronted with
the choice of either leading the Palestinian people or being the point
man for the Israelis.

Fisk always goes for the either/or. He doesn't mention, or its edited out, that Arafat's choice is determined greatly by outside players from the middle east, not by Americans or Europeans. It's also determined by Arafat's own dishonesty and love of corruption and violence which he does mention.
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