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

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7703)	11/7/2004 3:23:40 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 32591

ISRAEL: NO WAY THIS TERRORIST GETS JERUSALEM BURIAL By URI DAN Mideast Correspondent nypost.com November 6, 2004 -- The top Muslim cleric in Jerusalem said yesterday Yasser Arafat wants to be laid to rest in the holy city — but Israeli officials say no way. "He will not be buried in Jerusalem because Jerusalem is the city where Jewish kings are buried and not Arab terrorists," said Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid. Israel says a Gaza burial is the only option for the Palestinian leader, who remained in a coma in a Paris hospital last night. The Israeli response was no surprise to Ikrema Sabri, the highest-ranking Muslim cleric in Jerusalem, who says Arafat told him of his wishes four months ago. "The Israelis didn't respect President Arafat alive, and we don't see them respecting him when he's dead," Sabri said. Arafat wants to be buried near the al Aqsa Mosque — also known as the Temple Mount, the third-holiest site in Islam and an area also sacred to Jews. Seeing Arafat interred near the Temple Mount would draw public outrage in Israel and might also strengthen Palestinian claims to Jerusalem's Arab sector as a future capital. Palestinian officials suggested Arafat could be buried in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis, which lies in the Palestinian-occupied West Bank within view of al Aqsa. But Israel rejected the compromise. Several burial sites are possible in Gaza — including a plot next to Arafat's longtime seaside headquarters in Gaza City, or in what's known as the "Martyrs' Cemetery" east of the city. A burial in chaotic Gaza would be a security nightmare for foreign heads of state attending Arafat's funeral. Rival Palestinian gunmen are battling for control of Gaza before Israel withdraws from there next year.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7703)	11/7/2004 6:35:24 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Those accounts have long been known, and when the time comes, I wouldnt be surprised to see them, repatriated.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7703)	11/7/2004 11:09:35 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 32591

Laatest Crackpot Theory - This should sell well in Anti-Israel capitals. Arafat poisoned? BY CORKY SIEMASZKO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Candles are lit for Yasser Arafat at Paris hospital, where he lies in a coma. A Palenstian diplomat accused the Israelis yesterday of poisoning Yasser Arafat. "The doctors until now could not diagnose precisely what is wrong with him, but it is believed there is a poison," Ali Kazak, who heads the Palestinian delegation to Australia, told the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne. "It could be poison because they have checked everything, and his body is in good health, there is no cancer, it is not leukemia." Arafat's doctor, Ashraf Kurdi, told the Al Jazeera satellite TV network that, "Arafat's health condition makes poisoning a strong possibility." Israelis, who gave Arafat safe passage from his West Bank compound to a French military hospital last week, denied the charge. "It's absolute nonsense; it's completely ridiculous," an Israeli government source said. Kurdi has not yet diagnosed Arafat's mysterious blood ailment, and last night the 75-year-old Palestinian leader was hovering "between life and death." "He is in a coma," Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, said. "We don't know the type, but it's a reversible coma. He may or may not wake up. All vital organs are functioning." But other Arafat aides insisted their 75-year-old leader was brain dead and on life support. They said his wife, Suha, is weighing whether to pull the plug. "He is being aided by respiratory machines and his condition appears irreversible," a high-ranking Palestinian official told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Arafat jealously guarded his power and never appointed a successor. As he lay near death, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's No. 2 in the Palestine Liberation Organization, were taking the reins of the government. Originally published on November 6, 2004 nydailynews.com

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7703)	11/8/2004 1:21:55 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's wife on Monday lashed out at his top lieutenants, accusing them of seeking to "bury" her ailing husband "alive" in a furious call to Al-Jazeera television. In what she called "an appeal to the Palestinian people," broadcast live by the pan-Arab network, Suha Arafat accused Palestinian officials on their way to Paris of conspiring to usurp the role her husband has held for four decades as Palestinian leader. "Let it be known to the honest Palestinian people that a bunch of those who want to inherit are coming to Paris," she screamed in Arabic over the telephone. "You have to realize the size of the conspiracy. I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive," she continued, using Arafat's nom de guerre. "He is all right and he is going home. God is great." She said she was calling from Arafat's bedside at the French military hospital, where the 75-year-old leader has been in intensive care since last Wednesday. After new Mideast after Arafat? Click here to make your point Top PA officials to visit Arafat Former Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), current Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) and Foreign Minister Nabil Sha'ath were due to leave for Paris on Sunday night, where they are expected to announce the Palestinian leader's death. Israeli sources believe the Palestinian leadership has accepted Arafat's death. haaretzdaily.com