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Thread #57637   Message #1116637
Posted By: CarolC
15-Feb-04 - 08:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Arafat's $300 million
Subject: RE: BS: Arafat's $300 million
I don't think that question has been answered by anyone yet brucie. It's only been asked. This is what is said about it in the link I provided in my last post:

GARDELS: The Israelis have seized documents they say show that Arafat approved purchasing materials for suicide bombers and paid terrorists. What do you make of these documents?

SHAATH: The Israelis are not the policemen of Palestine. They have no juridical rights to search through anybody's papers and decide what is a crime and what is not.

Be that as it may, these papers don't prove anything. Two of them are about financial aid given to families of men that were not bombers, but people that Israel decided to kill through extra-judicial assassination. No court indicted them for anything. The amounts paid to their families posthumously were minimal -- $1,000 for five families.

Then there is this paper which shows a request for money to buy explosive materials supposedly addressed to the financial officer of the Palestinian police force. Yet, there are no markings or signatures of approval or disapproval by any Palestinian authority.

This is the smoking gun? The full proof of culpability and guilt claimed by the prime minister of Israel and the justification for his invasion? I don't think the world is so gullible.