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Arafat poisoned?
BY CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, November 6th, 2004

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

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Jerusalem Burial for Arafat Unlikely


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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel remains determined to deny Yasser Arafat burial in Jerusalem, though Palestinian officials say such a generous gesture could go a long way toward building trust destroyed in four years of fighting.

Israel fears acceding to Arafat's request to be buried in Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque would strengthen Palestinian claims to the traditionally Arab sector of the city as a future capital.

One Cabinet minister on Friday said that the holy city is reserved for the burial of Jewish kings, "not Arab terrorists."

Palestinian officials said publicly that it is inappropriate to talk about funeral arrangements as long as their 75-year-old leader clings to life at a Paris hospital. A hospital spokesman said Friday that Arafat was in a coma and "has not gotten worse."

One official said Palestinian leaders are hoping to enlist international support for a burial at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest shrine, which was built on the ruins of the biblical Jewish temples.

The top Muslim cleric in Jerusalem said Arafat requested burial near Al Aqsa when the two met four months ago. The comments by the mufti of Jerusalem, Ikrema Sabri, marked the first official comment on Arafat's burial wishes.

It is not clear if Arafat has left a written will, and Sabri said he was not aware of one.

The way the dispute is resolved could signal how Israel and the emerging Palestinian leadership - Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and his predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas - will get along in the future.

Arafat is reviled by many Israelis, and seeing him interred near what is also Judaism's holiest site would draw public outrage. Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid said Arafat "will not be buried in Jerusalem because Jerusalem is the city where Jewish kings are buried and not Arab terrorists."

His blunt remarks came despite Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's order to government officials to keep a low profile and avoid antagonizing the Palestinians, though Sharon himself told his Cabinet last week that he would not permit Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem.

Sabri said he didn't expect Israel to honor Arafat's wishes. "The Israelis didn't respect President Arafat alive, and we don't see them respecting him when he's dead," Sabri said.

Israeli security officials said Gaza was the only burial option. Even a compromise initially floated by army planners - interment in the West Bank suburb of Abu Dis, which offers a view of Al Aqsa - has since been ruled out by the military.

Army officials also oppose burial elsewhere in the West Bank, in part because Palestinian security forces would have trouble protecting the large numbers of foreign dignitaries expected for the event.

Palestinian police function better in Gaza, but a funeral there would still pose a security nightmare for visiting heads of state. There has been increasing chaos in recent months in the coastal strip, with groups of gunmen and security chiefs battling for control ahead of a planned Israeli troop withdrawal next year.

Israeli military officials said they would ease travel restrictions on Palestinians during the funeral, but if the burial is in Gaza, only officials - and not the general public - will be allowed to travel there from the West Bank to attend. If the funeral is in Ramallah, the Palestinian public will be allowed to participate, but will have to endure rigorous checks at roadblocks, the officials said.

Under "Operation New Leaf," drawn up to deal with Arafat's death, the army has already begun decreasing its presence in Palestinian towns and cities, security officials said on condition of anonymity.

Rival Palestinian groups, including Islamic militants, gathered Friday in Gaza in a show of unity they hoped would prevent the region from spiraling into further violence in the face of Arafat's increasingly dire condition.

Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they were instructed to prepare for the arrival of foreign envoys for the funeral, but the Palestinians weren't ready yet to cooperate in the planning.

Arafat's clan, the Al-Kidwas, are originally from Gaza, though the Palestinian leader grew up in Jerusalem and Cairo. The family has a small plot of 25 to 30 graves in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. The overgrown patch is in the middle of a busy vegetable market and would not be considered appropriate.

Other burial options include a seaside plot next to his old headquarters in Gaza City, or Gaza City's "martyrs' cemetery" east of the city, close to Israel.

Palestinian Cabinet minister Qadoura Fares said Arafat's burial could be an opening for a new relationship between Israelis and Palestinians.

"Israel has the chance to make far-reaching gestures," he said. "I think that how the Israeli leaders act ... Palestinians will take notice."



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Arafat and his driver are driving along in Gaza. Suddenly a dog runs out on
the street and they run it over. Arafat feels terrible and tells his driver,
"go find the owners and tell them of my sorrow and apologize for me." The
driver goes off to deliver the bad news, and Arafat waits in the car.
Twenty minutes, thirty minutes an hour and the driver still has not
returned. That's it. Arafat goes off to find him. When he does, he finds him
sitting in a family room, surrounded by dancing people, music playing, a
cigar in his mouth and a glass of champagne in his hand. What's going on?
Arafat demands. "I'm not certain," the driver replies. "All I said was I am
Arafats driver. The dog is dead."
May he die soon and go to hell

Suspicions grow that Arafat is dying of AIDS
By israelinsider staff November 6, 2004

Former White House speechwriter David Frum has joined the growing chorus of pundits, medical experts, and intelligence operatives who claim Yasser Arafat is likely suffering from AIDS.

Frum, a key figure in Republican politics and the man who coined the terms "axis of evil," writes in National Review Online that Arafat's undisclosed illness is well-known, but has been kept under wraps by the mainstream media.

"Speaking of media bias, here's a question you won't hear in our big papers or on network TV: Does Yasser Arafat have AIDS?" asks Frum, who also writes for the National Post.

"We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight -- possibly as much as one-third of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?"

Earlier, John Loftus told John Batchelor on ABC radio on October 26 that Arafat is dying from AIDS. Loftus said the CIA has known this about Arafat for quite awhile and that as a result the US has encouraged Sharon not to take Arafat out because the US has known Arafat was about done. It was deemed better to have Arafat discredited as a homosexual.

Although homosexuality is rife in the Arab world, it is at least officially considered a sin and a crime, and regarded--especially in fundamentalist circles--as a mark of great shame and depravity.

Intelligence on "the tiger" romping with bodyguards
Frum pointed to KGB evidence linking Arafat to homosexual activities, citing a 1987 book by Lt.-Gen. Ion Pacepa, the deputy chief of Romania's intelligence service under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

In his memoirs "Red Horizons," Pacepa relates a conversation in 1978 with Constantin Munteaunu, a general assigned to teach Arafat and the PLO techniques to deceive the West into granting the organization recognition.

"I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the 'Fedayee,'" Arafat's code name, explained Munteaunu. "After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the 'Fedayee' is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena."

Munteaunu continued: "I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood and filth all together in one man." Munteaunu, wrote Pacepa, spent months pulling together secret reports from Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian intelligence agencies as well as Romanian files.

"I used to think I knew just about everything there was to know about Rahman al-Qudwa," Arafat's real name, "about the construction engineer who made a fortune in Kuwait, about the passionate collector of racing cars, about Abu Amman," Arafat's nom de guerre, "and about my friend Yasser, with all his hysterics," explained Munteaunu, handing Pacepa his final report on the PLO leader. "But I've got to admit that I didn't really know anything about him."

Pacepa wrote: "The report was indeed an incredible account of fanaticism, of devotion to his cause, of tangled oriental political maneuvers, of lies, of embezzled PLO funds deposited in Swiss banks, and of homosexual relationships, beginning with his teacher when he was a teen-ager and ending with his current bodyguards. After reading the report, I felt a compulsion to take a shower whenever I had been kissed by Arafat, or even just shaken his hand."

"If true, Arafat would have a great deal to conceal from his people and his murderously anti-homosexual supporters in the Islamic world," writes Frum, suggesting that Arafat was airlifted to France for medical treatment because he "could trust the French to protect his intimate secret."

The medical evidence adds up
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath Monday said that all types of cancer had been ruled out, and the latest news is that French doctors have ruled out poisoning.

Medical observers note that a low blood platelet count is a sign of a weakened immune system, and indeed last week there were reports of a complete collapse of Arafat's immune system. Other than the ruled-out cancer, the low count could be attributed to bleeding ulcers, colitis, liver disease, lupus, or HIV. It is believed that ulcers and colitis have already been ruled out.

Arafat has lost a considerable amount of body weight. Hopital d'Instruction des Armees de Percy, southwest of Paris, is known to have some of France's best HIV/AIDS doctors. Other medical experts note that Arafat's activities in recent weeks and months suggest the dementia that accompanies late-stage AIDS.

Medical authorities not connected directly to his case are suggesting that he may have HIV/AIDS. One doctor reported to an Israel Insider source that his suspicions have been growing for more than a year.

"I began to see tell tale signs of kaposis sarcoma. His Parkinsonian tremor was more than just a Parkinsonian tremor and he was also showing signs of weakness. The rumor about homosexuality/bisexuality has been around for decades. So I put two and two together when they started talking about his health over a year ago. The talk of a mysterious illness in this day and age should be a tip-off. He has some of the best physicians in the world attending to him. He can be diagnosed clinically, without perfoming any tests. All the doctors surrounding him know what he has. All this cloak and dagger about tests is a ruse. They understand the implications of divulging that he has HIV. If I were Suha I would be getting a little concerned."

If Arafat has AIDS, that would also explain Suha's reticence to allow the release of significant information about Arafat's condition, and the almost ludicrously tight-lipped reports of the French hospital spokesman, and the refusal of anyone connected with Arafat to hold a press conference in recent days.

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By LARA SUKHTIAN, Associated Press Writer

CLAMART, France - Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s wife said her husband is "all right" and lashed out at his top lieutenants Monday, accusing them of traveling to Paris with plans to "bury" him "alive."


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In a screaming telephone call from Arafat's hospital bedside, Suha Arafat told pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television that she was issuing "an appeal to the Palestinian people." She accused his top aides, who are traveling to Paris later Monday, of conspiring to usurp her husband's four-decade long role 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 shouted in Arabic, in her first public comments since Arafat fell ill a month ago.


"You have to realize the size of the conspiracy. I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive," she said, using Arafat's nom de guerre. He is all right and he is going home. God is great."


A producer from Al-Jazeera told The Associated Press the station was confident it was Suha Arafat on the phone. She first called the network's Ramallah office and then its headquarters in Qatar.


Despite her insistence that Arafat, 75, was fine, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on Sunday called the Palestinian leader's condition "very complex, very serious and stable right now."


Palestinians have been making contingency plans for the event of his death, and Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Mahmoud Abbas, the former prime minister and deputy chairman of Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites), were due in Paris on Monday to consult with his doctors and French officials.


Jamil Tarifi, the Palestinian minister of civil affairs, told Al- Jazeera the group was initially hesistant about going, but that the executive committee decided the trip would help "reassure" worried Palestinians. He did not comment on Suha Arafat's charges.


Some Palestinians have complained that Suha Arafat has gained too much power, as she controls the flow of information about Arafat's condition and has taken charge of access to the ailing leader.


"She is not part of the Palestinian leadership," Arafat security adviser Jibril Rajoub told Israel's Channel Two TV on Sunday.


Suha Arafat, 41, who lives in Paris, has not been to the West Bank or seen her husband since the latest round of Palestinian violence began in 2000. She rarely speaks to the media.


She also is widely believed to have control of vast amounts of PLO money.


Palestinian leaders are working to avoid chaos or violence in the event of Arafat's death. He has been ailing for nearly a month and doctors have described him in recent days as in critical but stable condition. They have not publicly release a diagnosis.


Early Sunday, one of Arafat's senior aides, Nabil Abu Rdeneh, categorically denied Arafat was in coma. But Shaath later told CNN that he was in a "reversible" coma. He denied reports that there was brain or liver damage.


Asked about reports of brain death, Barnier replied: "I wouldn't say that."


Arafat's death would open the potentially explosive issue of a burial site, and Palestinian officials have said Arafat wants to interred in Jerusalem. Israel has refused the request.


In Jerusalem, Israeli officials said on Sunday preparations were complete for Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites).





Also Sunday, the Palestinian National Security Council, temporarily headed by Qureia, approved his plan for internal security, according to Palestinian officials. No details were available.

Qureia has already assumed some of Arafat's financial and administrative powers.

Abbas, considered a more likely successor, has chaired a series of meetings of the PLO executive committee in Arafat's absence in an effort to project unity.

But neither politician has much grassroots support among Palestinians or important militant groups.

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Associated Press reporter Sarah El Deeb in Cairo contributed to this report.


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אראפאט לעבט נאך, אבער מען גרייט שוין צו זיין לוויה בחיים חיותו.


הפלשתינים: ערפאת חי, הלווייתו ביום ו'
בעוד שברשות טוענים בתוקף: "הראיס עדיין בחיים", נשלמות ההכנות להלווייתו. מחר ייערך טקס אשכבה במצרים. ביום ו' יובא יו"ר הרשות יובא לקבורה במתחם המוקטעה ברמאללה
מרואן עת'אמנה ואילאיל שחר
10/11/2004

חוסר הוודאות והמסרים הסותרים סביב מצבו של יו"ר הרשות הפלשתינית ממשיכים גם היום. בעוד שהפלשתינים מכריזים שבכוונתם לקבור את ערפאת המת במוקטעה בראמללה, מודיע איש דת בכיר שביקר בצהריים את הראיס בבית החולים בצרפת, ש"ערפאת עדיין חי".

למרות שההכנות בצד הישראלי והפלשתיני לקבורתו של ערפאת הולכות ונשלמות, אין עדיין אישור רשמי לסברה שערפאת למעשה מת. נשיא בתי הדין השרעיים (הסמכות הדתית השנייה בחשיבותה ברשות), השייח' תייסיר תמימי, שהגיע לבית החולים בפריז מסר כאמור בצהריים שערפאת עדיין חי. נציגת אש"ף בצרפת, לילה שאהיד, אמרה שתמימי הגיע כדי להיות עם ערפאת ברגעיו האחרונים, אך הוא לא ינתק אותו ממכשירי ההנשמה.

מקורות פלשתיניים מסרו שההנהגה הבכירה של הרשות הפלשתינית צפויה לצאת היום למצרים לקראת טקס האשכבה שייערך מחר בקהיר וכי ההלווייה תיערך ביום שישי ברמאללה. ההודעה הרשמית על מותו של ערפאת צפויה להימסר בשעות הצהריים בתום הדיונים שמקיימים כעת בכירי ההנהגה במוקטעה ברמאללה. בכך תסתיים יממה של דיווחים סותרים על מצבו של ערפאת, כאשר בכירי הרשות התאמצו להכחיש את הידיעות כי "הראיס" כבר מת.

טקס האשכבה מחר ייערך, ככל הנראה, במשכן הליגה הערבית בקהיר. הכוונה היא לתת לערפאת את הכבוד כמנהיג מדינה ערבית וחברה בליגה הערבית וכדי לאפשר למנהיגי מדינות ערב להשתתף בטקס מבלי שיזדקקו לבוא לשטחים ולעבור דרך ישראל.

עם סיום טקס האשכבה של הראיס יועבר ארונו של ערפאת לרמאללה, שם תיערך לו הלוויה ביום שישי והוא ייקבר במוקטעה. ברמאללה כבר החלו ההכנות להלוויה. דחפורים ומשאיות מנקים ומיישרים את השטח מהריסות שהותיר צה"ל במבצע "חומת מגן" ומהפלישה למוקטעה, במטרה במטרה להתחיל בבניית קבר לערפאת.

מזכ"ל הנשיאות של הרשות הפלשתינית, טייב עבד אל-רחים, אמר שערפאת ייקבר במוקטעה כיוון שהיא מהווה סמל להתנגדות, לעמידה האיתנה של המאבק הפלשתיני ולאישיותו של ערפאת. עם זאת, גורמים פלשתיניים חזרו והדגישו שקבורתו של ערפאת במקום תהיה זמנית עד לכינונה של מדינה פלשתינית עצמאית שבירתה ירושלים ואז גופת ערפאת תועבר לשם.

גורם ביטחוני פלשתיני הוסיף שלרשות יש מספיק כוח שיטור וביטחון שיכול לשמור על הסדר והביטחון ברמאללה במהלך הלווייתו של ערפאת ולאחריה. לדבריו, מערך השיטור והאבטחה ברמאללה תוגבר ורמת הכוננות בעיר הועלתה עד לדרגה הגבוהה ביותר.


בתוך כך, החליט הבוקר הקבינט המדיני-ביטחוני לאשר את קבורתו של ערפאת ברמאללה, זאת למרות השגות הדרג הביטחוני. שרי הקבינט קיבלו עדכון שטקס האשכבה של ערפאת, אם ימות, יתקיים מחר בקהיר. עוד הוחלט שהפלשתינים יהיו אחראים לאבטחת ההלווייה עצמה, אולם ישראל תישא באחריות כוללת לאבטחת כל האזור סביב רמאללה. ראשי מערכת הביטחון התכמסו בצהריים לצורך בניית תוכנית אבטחה היקפית כוללת של אזור רמאללה, בדגש על אבטחת הישובים היהודים באזור.

הערב צפוי שר הביטחון, שאול מופז לאשר את התכנית הביטחונית שתגובש בצה"ל. עוד הוחלט בקבינט שכל בקשה לכניסת מנהיגים זרים להלוויה תוגש למשרד החוץ שיוודא שכל מנהיג שרוצה, יגיע להלוויה. הקבינט החליט שלא יותר מעבר פלשתינים מעזה לאיו"ש למעט בעלי תפקידים רשמיים.

Rabbi Moishe Beck, 70, holds a candle at the makeshift shrine for ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) in front of the Percy Military Teaching hospital in Clamart outside Paris, France, Wednesday, Nov.10, 2004. With Arafat in what an aide called ''the final phase of his life,'' the Palestinian leader's political heirs completed burial arrangements and decided on a temporary presidential successor. (AP Photo/Franck Prevel)
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Statement by the President





November 10, 2004

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

The death of Yasser Arafat is a significant moment in Palestinian history. We express our condolences to the Palestinian people. For the Palestinian people, we hope that the future will bring peace and the fulfillment of their aspirations for an independent, democratic Palestine that is at peace with its neighbors. During the period of transition that is ahead, we urge all in the region and throughout the world to join in helping make progress toward these goals and toward the ultimate goal of peace.

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