On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:02:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The difference is, Sharon can be voted out; Arafat can't. Sharon was > elected to his office, Arafat wasn't.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9601/palestine_elex/01-21/12am/ *** Excerpt: January 21, 1996 Web posted at: 12:40 a.m. EST (0540 GMT) RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- As Palestinian election officials emptied boxes brimming with ballots and began the momentous process of counting, two facts emerged quickly and clearly: Voters had turned out in phenomenal numbers, and Yasser Arafat was racing toward a landslide victory. With 60 percent of the ballots counted under the watchful eyes of international observers, Arafat received 85 percent of the votes in the historic and mostly peaceful exercise of selecting a president for Palestine under self-rule. Arafat's only opponent, 72-year-old social worker Samiha Khalil, picked up 10 percent of the votes, the Palestinian election commission said early Sunday. More than a million Palestinians were registered to vote in the elections for a president and 88-seat legislative council. *** -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
