Methinks the current exhumation of Yasser Arafat, longstanding leader of the PLO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization - and moreover undisputed 'spiritual leader' to the great majority of Palestinians -long rumoured to vindicate claims that he was poisoned to death those 8-some years ago now, may well prove those [claims] well-founded. And methinks this has indeed been the underlying and even 'justifiable' explanation for the long-simmering and again recently boiled over anger, yea fury, of so many Palestinians in Gaza. For surely this [only just undertaken] exhumation of his remains, in the expectation that such may well reveal signs of the untoward manner and cause of his premature departure from this life, has been only too well-reported in Gaza of late, and long before the longstanding tensions there once again came so dramatically to the surface in recent weeks. However controversial the life of this longserving champion of his people - an unwavering advocate of a Palestinian homeland for the long-dispossessed Palestinian people (although arguably also of the expulsion of Israelis from Palestine 'into the [Mediterranean] sea' and thus their utter extermination) - the actual cause of his death, long the subject of suspicion, if only now long after the fact close to being (theoretically) 'conclusively' established, should give ample pause to all parties involved and yes, maybe even soul-searching, among Israelis and Americans especially, in days and weeks and months to come. One can only ever live in hope. Irrespective of any 'verdict' or declaration upon the matter, however, one suspects that Arafat undoubtedly will be seen anew as a martyr. No, and to his enduring and considerable credit, he certainly didn't self-immolate or die in a suicide bombing, taking both his own life as well as that of countless innocents, but martyr for the cause he may well come to be regarded as. All the more so in that, whatever and moreover whoever the cause of his early demise, he thus appears to have been 'taken out of the way' in an extraordinary and surreptitious manner all too eerily reminiscent of Russia's current leader.
Admittedly I've personally suspected that Mr Arafat was not only deliberately 'disposed of', but done so for one reason more than any other: the well-founded and arguably justifiable conviction on the part of Israeli intelligence and security especially - and perhaps even their superiors going all the way up into the inner echelons of Israeli Government - that were he to have not been thus summarily despatched the world may well have seen its end in an atomic holocaust centered around Jerusalem in 2006: a scenario well within conceivable feasibility according to the revelations in Michael Drosnin's groundbreaking and critically important The Bible Code (unfortunately misrepresented by some superficial observers). Conspiracy theories some may assume, but I imagine such is a lot closer to the real crux of the matter than many imagine. And paradoxically, in so doing I also suspect that such covert assassins have - however inadvertently and inconceivably (in their own eyes) - actually thus moved Planet Earth a heckuva lot closer to such a long-feared scenario than they realize: a couple minutes if not seconds away from the long-fabled Doomsday Clock's hands striking midnight. Indeed by thus galvanizing the outraged sympathies and passions of the Palestinian people for their beloved long-time standard-bearer, thus transformed into an unrivalled and inimitable martyr for their cause par excellence, and by virtue of the appalling manner of his death perhaps even 'being able' consequently to enlist the similarly outraged sympathies of a world populace, or at least the leadership thereof, equally appalled by the thus silencing and disposal of a man generally considered not only a paragon of supreme moderation and even pragmatism in Palestinian-Israeli affairs, I - extremely regretfully - believe "the children of Ismael will [thus] prepare to arouse all the nations of the world to come against Jerusalem"*, and thus fulfil longstanding biblical prophecies that are rapidly looking increasingly liable of fulfilment...(From 'Chapter Notes', pages 170-172, The Bible Code.) But I certainly hope such is not the case, and like Michael Drosnin and Eliyahu Rips, the now famous Israeli mathematician intimately associated with the decoding of said 'Bible Code', and indeed a whole host of other commentators upon and (at times suitably hesitant and tentative) interpreters of various of the other major end-time, apocalyptic prophecies of a time many believe to be all too resonant with our own, believe - as has indeed ever been the case throughout the 'biblical (i.e. Older and Newer Testament) dispensation' - that humanity, by its own choices - has an essential freedom to choose just how those, supposedly predetermined' events, actually pan out. I.e. God's foreknowledge does not indicate His foreordaining.
And yet, realist that I cannot help but ultimately be, I suspect that Mr Arafat, "being dead, yet speaketh", and not in the faith-building way that his martyred biblical forbear - the first human being created, and all too soon murdered by his own brother - has surely done over earth's many millennia. No, I suspect rather that the manner - and presumed cause - of his demise will bear 'fruit' indeed, if long after the fact, but in a way far from conducive to that long-eluding peace in the Middle East that the region's numerous and diverse inhabitants and indeed humanity itself, have long wistfully yearned for and equally consistently been cheated of. As Grima Wormtongue of Lord of the Rings might have put it, an ill omen bearing evil tidings indeed.
What are they going do now if they found poison in his body,revenge,Jihad,fatwa,Hollywar against that country whom they blame which is only based on hearsays because no one exactly knows and may be some one his trusted man may have done it.Rather than doing these dramas they should sit down and solve their problems peacefully.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Indeed, though the process to establish how Yasser Arafat died and whether it was in fact by poisoning is now well underway, and tentative conclusions thereto may even be about to be declared 'as we speak', according to (New Zealand) Newstalk ZB's 4p.m. Drivetime Show this afternoon, the issue is, as you say, the actual significance that might be reasonably taken from such. And yet, as you (perhaps) suggest, and as any fair student of history well realizes, more wars and other conflicts have been started as a consequence of baseless suspicion, prejudice, presupposition and utterly idle speculation than this world dreams of. So let's hope that saner, more reasonable and clearer heads prevail.
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