The United States government has blocked the Israeli military from capturing a raid intended to seize Palestinian terrorist leader, Yasser Arafat.
The United States has prevented Israel’s military from capturing the headquarters of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.U.S. government sources said the Bush administration sent a harsh message to Israel to suspend plans to capture Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah over the weekend. The sources said the had military planned to raid the so-called Muqata’a on late Friday and capture Arafat.
Both Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice telephoned Israeli and PA leaders and warned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to suspend the military plans, Middle East Newsline reported.
The U.S. sources said the Bush administration was alarmed by the Israeli entry into Ramallah on Thursday. An Israeli military force captured a PA ministry about 300 meters from Arafat’s headquarters and established a command post for the capture of the Muqata’a.
At that point, the sources said, the administration was informed by the CIA that Israel planned to imminently capture Arafat’s headquarters and seize the PA chairman. They said Israel planned to exile Arafat to a distant Arab country.
“The United States does not support either the elimination or the exile of Mr. Arafat,” Powell said. “It is not our position and the Israeli government knows this. There would be rage in the Arab world and the Muslim world. And I don’t see this moving forward the roadmap.”
This is utterly absurd and a COMPLETE perversion of all that is just and right. This is equivalent in my eyes to some foreign power blocking the United States military from capturing Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Colin Powell is afraid that the death or seizure of Arafat will anger the Arab world? Since when do we not prosecute criminals, murderers, and terrorists because we are afraid that it will anger people?!?!?!
It is now completely apparent to me that this administration has absolutely no idea of what fundamental principles are, nor how to apply them. Our government is a collection of pragmatic morons who have absolutely no conception of how to run our government (especially our foreign policy) properly.
While I believe that Arafat should be shot, not exiled, Israel has the absolute right to act in its own self-interest and should clearly reject this blatant violation of justice on the part of the U.S. administration.
It is now absolutely clear to me that instead of ruthlessly eliminating the enemies of this country (Islamic fundamentalism), the Bush administration hopes to appease them by handing over Israel to their bloodthirsty, hateful and murderous ways. This will fail, as all appeasement of terrorists and dictatorships must by necessity fail.
The result of this policy of appeasement will be another terrorist attack on our soil, I guarantee it. God (speaking metaphorically) help us all.
