On 11 Sep 2001, at 13:37, Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
> > And I believe that Sharon is a war criminal due to certain incidents
> > involving allowing christian extremeists into Muslem refugee camps,
> > where they commited genocide.
>
> If he is a war criminal (and from that incident you described, he
> might very well be one), why is there no international arrest warrant
> out for him? Why are we not putting him in the cell next to Slobodan
> Milosovic?
My name is on a petition to the international war tribunal to do just
that.
> > Possibly? Who released all the Hamas terrorists from jails in
> > Palestian Authority terratory? Arafat.
>
> Speaking of jails: how about Israeli civilians in the Occupied
> Territories? Is the Israeli government doing anything to prosecute and
> jail Israeli settlers that kill Palestinians?
They're trying, but they're being protected by their communities.
>
> > He knows that's going on. He refused the offer of Barak, which was
> > basically EVERYTHING he wanted, he refused...
>
> If it was basically everything he wanted, Arafat would have accepted
> the offer. The only possible conclusion therefore is that the offer
> was not everything Arafat wanted.
Simply put, it WAS what they wanted. They DELBERATELY
quibbled over minor points and killed it. Arafat did not feel that he
could keep his people under control, so he refused peace.
> > Sharon and Arafat are BOTH War Criminals...
>
> Hm. Not sure about Sharon, but I do not think of Arafat as a war
> criminal. That would place him in the same category as people like
> Milosovic. The US does not want to associate with war criminals, so
> Milosovic was never invited to the White House -- Arafat was. Neither
> Sharon nor Milosovic received the Nobel Peace Prize -- Arafat did
> (1994).
>
> (Admittedly, so did Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.)
>
> That places Arafat in the same category as people like Nelson Mandela,
> Mikhail Gorbachev and the 14th Dalai Lama, and organisations like
> Medecins Sans Frontieres, UNICEF, and, hey, look what we have here --
> the International Campaign to Ban Landmines... (sorry, could not
> resist).
I also signed the petition to strip Arafat of his nobel piece prize.
Arafat, I remind you, was and is an admitted terrosist.
Andy
Dawn Falcon
