Ah, Those Conspiracy Theories!
"Ultimately all the documents surrounding Arafat's death are in Palestinian hands. Instead of spreading conspiracy theories, the Palestinians could just make the documents public." Senior Israeli official
"I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids." Francois Botutte, director of the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland
Suha, the late Yasser Arafat's wife, who lives in extravagant grand style in France on European and American funding he purloined from the burgeoning humanitarian cache meant to support the Palestinian people, has agreed to an exhumation of her late husband's body for an autopsy to be undertaken to prove her contention that he was murdered by Jews.
Al-Jazeera sees profit in re-visiting the controversial death in 2004 of the secret potentate and public defender of the Palestinians, Yasser Arafat, who signed a peace deal with Israel and then reneged for fear that the most militant wing of the PLO would assassinate him in rage over his abandonment of their determination to retake all of the land that the State of Israel sits upon.
Saeb Erekat, an aide of the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas anticipates an exhumation "in the coming days". The Palestinians would, according to Mr. Erekat, then look for an international enquiry into Arafat's death. Reflective of the one that investigated the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Theories of Yasser Arafat's death have been rekindled; from a Mossad assassination to death throes caused by some of his Palestinian cohorts not in complete agreement with his methodology. Although the French military hospital that treated him refused to release their records after his death, they were eventually obtained and published in 2005 by The New York Times.
Arafat had been ailing for a long time. He had cirrhosis of the liver. He died of a stroke resulting from a bleeding disorder caused by an infection that was never identified. At the time there were those who hinted the infection was related to AIDS, a condition he acquired as a result of his sexual proclivities. The hospital discovered no trace of poisons, which was also suspected at that time.
Suha Arafat had turned over to the Al Jazeera television channel a copy of those medical records, along with his personal effects. Which included his toothbrush and his black and white checkered kaffiyeh, so beloved of would-be leftist radicals and admirers in the Western world. And it was from those items that doctors at the Institute of Radiation Physics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland found what they claim are high levels of polonium-210.
A victim suffering from polonium poisoning would experience multiple organ failure as a result of alpha radiation particles bombarding the liver, kidneys and bone marrow. Are French doctors so abysmally incapable of diagnosing what appears before them that they cannot identify such a poisoning, instead writing on the death certificate cause of death a stroke?
Is this yet another example of the Palestinian Authority pulling out all the stops to further malign Israel and inflame world opinion? Arafat was a divisive, devious manipulator. His death was no tragedy, but long overdue. His heroic stature in the canon of Palestinian saints and martyrs despite his horrible failures as a champion of the Palestinians will remain unchanged.
Labels: Middle East, Palestinian Authority, Political Realities
posted by Pieface @ Friday, July 06, 2012
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