November 07, 2004
Arafat must go...somewhere else
Via Debkafile. True or false?
French president Jacques Chirac’s patience with the Palestinians’ desperate maneuvers to cover up Yasser Arafat’s demise has run out. DEBKAfile’s Paris and Washington sources reveal exclusively that Friday, November 5, exactly a week after Arafat was admitted to the Percy military hospital near Paris, the French president put in a call to the White House and informed President George W. Bush that it was all over.
The dead / not dead circus has already gone beyond macabre. What's next, an interview with a teary-eyed PPDA so that we can see what condition Arafat's condition is in for ourselves?
Posted by Valerie at November 7, 2004 01:47 AMThe dead / not dead circus has already gone beyond macabre. What's next, an interview with a teary-eyed PPDA so that we can see what condition Arafat's condition is in for ourselves?Don't be silly. All you need to do is alert John Edwards, whose Vice-Presidential career is now over, to the extraordinary sums of money Arafat seems to have managed to hoard.
As part of his suit against the French hospital for malpractice, he can subpoena (or the french equivalent) the EEG records, and relate to us the last thoughts of the great statesman himself. In the event Arafat remains alive, I am sure Arafat will tell us so himself, through John Edwards.
Posted by: scum of the univ at November 7, 2004 03:32 AMThe whole thing is becoming less like Kabuki theatre and more like a soap opera. Arafat's wife is trying to prevent a Abu Mazen and Abu Allah's visit - it's absurd.
You can smell an internal power struggle from here.
Posted by: Joe N. at November 8, 2004 11:38 PMAnd Arafat is supposedly in 'stable' condition!
Right, when you are being kept alive by machine, I guess you can say that the state of being brain-dead is stable.
Bet he'd be less 'stable' if they unplugged the mechanics.
Posted by: Valerie at November 8, 2004 11:51 PMNothing's more stable than death.
Posted by: Doug at November 12, 2004 02:34 PM
