arafat

It wasn't a choice between Arafat and Hamas, it was a choice between Arafat and Abbas.

Even if Arafat was assassinated, it can still be a conspiracy theory to say it if the argument is done in a certain way.

Persuade me of this: killing Arafat would / did not prevent Fateh from acting as a counterweight to Hamas.

Rabin and Arafat (and Peres) tried, with the Oslo accords, to move toward a settlement of a long-standing, violent dispute.

Saying that Arafat must have been assassinated because he died at a certain time is nonsense.

Saying that Arafat must have been assassinated because his bones were filled with Polonium is reasonable.

Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin were awarded it, its not clear if they intended to create a peace, but they did not.

Of course they do, but clearly the Oslo Accords (for which Arafat and Rabin won their Nobel) were a product of US intervention.

After all, Kissinger, Arafat and Gore have won the Nobel Peace prize.

The exact same thing is going on over in the Arafat discussion.

Yasser Arafat got it and the Israeli political right got crazy.

If Yaser Arafat and Barack Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, I guess now it's time for Vladimir Putin to make the list complete?

We used to quip about Arafat swearing off "International Tourism", quite a menace that was.

Paddy Regan, says: "They are saying the hypothesis that Arafat was poisoned with polonium-210 is valid and has not been disproven by the data.

You aren't sure if Rabin and Arafat "intended to create peace"?

Prof Regan says a series of assumptions would have been made in order to ascertain how much Po-210 may or may not have been in Mr Arafat's body at the time of his death." 'has not been disproven' - means it has not been proven either.

Arafat may have reduced funding to Al-Aqusa, but that's because they were on the ropes militarily by 2004.

From The Guardian: 'Danny Rubinstein, a journalist and author of a book about Arafat, had a different memory of events.

They gave it to Arafat, Kissinger and quite a few other warmongers, so it didn't have that much value to lose.