Arafat: I'll become a 'Nelson Mandela' after state is established

[drdon326]

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said Tuesday he was prepared to step aside and become "the Palestinian Nelson Mandela", but added that he would do so only after the establishment of a Palestinian state.

In an interview with the London-based daily Asharq Al-Awsat, Arafat announced that he was planning to run in the next elections for the presidency of the PA. No date has been set for the elections, although Arafat recently said he was hoping that the vote would take place in April or May next year.

He said Israel's attempts to create a new Palestinian leadership were doomed to failure because the Palestinians would not accept another Hamid Karazai – the US backed president of Afghanistan.

Arafat said he did not share the opinion of some Palestinian officials that the Palestinians had made a mistake by "militarizing" the intifada.


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riiiiiight,yassir....whatever you say.

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Did you mean to post this in IP?

and yeah...Arafat's as much a "Mandela" as Sharon is a war hero....they ought to be sentenced to live together in perpetuity when all is said and done...that would be justice.

[Don Claybrook]

3. Is this the right place for this article?

I haven't seen much in GD about the slaughter of innocents in Gaza that Israel is carrying-out, so I'm thinking maybe this is for the Israeli/Palestinian affairs forum

[Djinn]

4. Mandela and the ANC

utilised violent resistance as well - people like to pretend he was some Ghandi figure - he was a fighter and they used the means available to fight a much more powerful oppressor.