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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cage Rattler who wrote (2036)	4/10/2002 12:15:26 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Arafat says he is sure of victory NICOSIA (AP) — Beleaguered Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said he was sure of victory against the Israeli occupation army in a message read by his representative on Saturday to an international conference of solidarity with the Palestinians. “Be sure that we are not a defeated people. We have paid a high price but at the end the Israeli army will be defeated because it represents an unjust cause, and we will win because we represent a just cause,” Arafat said in his message. It was read to loud applause from the conference by Hani Al Hassan, a Palestinian delegate. Hassan declined to say how the message was transmitted to him. Arafat has been isolated in his bombed-out office in Ramallah since Israel's incursion into the West Bank last Friday. The United Nations and the United States have called on Israel to pull back. “We are fighting for freedom, liberty, justice and sovereignty and we are sure we will free Palestine,” Arafat's message said. “The day is not far when peace will prevail in the land of peace and when we will all march to Jerusalem hand in hand, and when a new era will begin.” Hassan told the conference of European leftist and Communist Parties that “peace is our strategy and we will keep to this strategy not because we have no other choice but because peace is the real and right strategy to help our people, to stop the killing of children and so that we can coexist in one land with two states.” He also saluted “all our Israeli friends with whom we both believe in peace and with whom we will make peace together in the future.” Hassan said that the United States “is no longer an honest mediator,” and called on US Secretary of State Colin Powell, due in the region on Monday, to be “fair and honest.” Powell “needs to distinguish between the terror or the oppressor and the resistance of the oppressed,” he said.