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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (112396)8/23/2003 4:52:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Thanks for the explanation Nadine. Since he's reaching mortality age anyway, Arafat's demise is going to happen sooner rather than later if only by natural causes. Creating a martyr is not necessarily all that clever. Look what happened when they nailed Jesus and killed him - a world champion martyr whose ideas [often misquoted no doubt] and crucifiction[sic] are still magnets for mobs.

If they'd deported him or imprisoned him on a slave farm, it might have been smarter. Except that it wasn't really possible to deport people in those days and having them on a farm consumed the food that they produced [as surpluses were minimal in those days and subsistence farming was common = no spare land]. So execution was the main practical way of getting rid of non-compliant people. Putting them in the army was always a good user of spare males, but a pacifist wouldn't have been much use and would still eat food.

So I suppose they are stuck with Arafat for now.

Mqurice
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