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Did Israel Nuke Arafat?

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Since we now have conclusive evidence that Arafat was poisoned by radioactive polonium 210 and since Israel is the prime suspect in Arafat’s 2004 assassination, surely it is time to point the finger at Israel and its leadership and to demand explanations.

Already in 2004, Silvan Shalom, at the time Israeli Foreign Minister, rejected as “scandalous and false” the idea that his country had a role in Arafat’s death. However, this is despite the facts that Israel had earlier threatened Arafat, blaming him for Palestinian violence and, after losing 15 citizens to suicide bombings in September 2003 and had decided to “remove” Arafat – though without elaborating publicly precisely how this might be achieved. As if this were not enough, an Israeli newspaper quoted Avi Dichter, at the time Shin Bet director as saying that ‘it would be better to kill Arafat than exile him.

This week we learned that a Swiss institute, which recently examined Arafat’s clothing, had found “surprisingly” high levels traces of polonium-210, the same substance which killed former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Surely such findings should also encourage MI5 to re-examine Litvinenko’s death and his close ties with Israel and the Russian Oligarchs. Is it possible that polonium -210 was, at the time, the lethal method of choice amongst Israeli assassins?

But a positive answer to this question leaves me only confused. What could have led Israel to the peculiar decision to nuke its prime enemies by planting polonium in their food? What could they have in mind when they decided to use a substance that can be provided by only a very few states and would leave radioactive traces forever?  Do they really think that the Goyim and the Arabs are that stupid? I am afraid that the answer may as well be in the affirmative. Israel knows, and exults in the fact, that it gets away with murder – and quite easily too.

Still, we must here note that Israel has all along denied any involvement in Arafat’s death. On Wednesday, Avi Dichter, said that it was for Palestinians to investigate:

The body is in their hands. It is in Ramallah, and really, all the keys are in their hands.

Meanwhile Israel Army Radio confirmed that introducing polonium into food was the only way to kill someone with that particular poison and asked Dichter, whose agency had overall responsibility for monitoring the Palestinians, whether it would have been possible with Arafat.

 You’re asking me as his cook?

was Dichter’s jocular answer.

Actually, it’s no joke. Israel certainly wasn’t the cook but is clearly in the frame for being the chef in this gastronomic debacle. Dichter continued: “We were focused on more serious things. Arafat’s food did not interest us. I think it interested those around him, in order, really, to keep his health up, as he was indeed known to be unwell. But the Shin Bet, or the State of Israel, was not involved in Yasser Arafat’s food.”

I agree with Dichter. It is more than likely that Israel wasn’t directly involved in the preparation Arafat’s final hummus, but we, nonetheless, should be concerned here with the strong possibility that Israel may have, probably thorough a third party, found a way to pepper Arafat’s food with the radioactive substance.

Pressed on the poisoning scenario, Ditcher said:

Yasser Arafat had many enemies, domestically and abroad. But let them investigate … The Palestinians know well how to investigate what goes on in their house. Let them investigate and find out.

Dichter is obviously correct, Arafat indeed had many enemies, but the obvious question here is how any of his enemies could put their hands on a radioactive substance available to just a few states. And I guess that we all know of one possible suspect – and so does Dichter

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  1. the po-210 has also been found in arafat’s toothpaste. all the israelis had to do was pass the tube of contaminated toothpaste to one of their palestinian agents who had access to arafat’s toiletries or bathroom.

    as po-210 decays very quickly and is difficult to detect, unless one specifically is looking for it, it makes an effective poison to use. better than that nerve toxin they got busted for previously. po-210 is incurable. once administered, the victim cant recover.

    one thing to consider is are arafat and litvenenko the only victims of israeli po-210 poisoning? administered in “large” amounts, it kills in a few weeks. the extreme doses given to arafat and litvenenko were to send a message, like that sent when the hamas guy was murdered in dubai. that jp cowards’ way of striking from behind. but what if it is administered in much smaller amounts, or in small amounts periodically? what effect does it have? cancer causing? in small enough amounts to not cause radiation sickness symptoms, but still toxic enough to slowly kill? discovering the po-210 in that context would be extremely unlikely. maybe the israelis slipped chavez a micky, too? maybe a whole lot of people have been slipped this micky over the years without suspicions being raised? and not just leaders or other well known people being annoying to israel/jp/jewish mafia, but the small fry as well getting their little doses of jp retribution?

  2. Business idea: a kit for those who consider themselves potential targets of JP. The Jewproof Kit with a label featuring the star of David barred in red kit would contain a Geiger counter, two vials, a couple of reagents for testing potable liquids for common poisons, wet swipes for wiping contact surfaces in hotel rooms, miniature screwdrivers for inspecting the telephone, etc.

    • I find you very interesting.
      You are THERE, in the middle of it all. You even put on a uniform.
      Yet you look at the same blue sky we all look at and see it as … magenta.
      Is it because you are so close to the ground that you cannot see above grass level, like an ant? Is it because you know deep down that if you really saw the sky as blue it would fall on you, your whole world would crumble?
      You are not an unintelligent person: you write fully formed sentences, you know the rules of syntax (a child’s first lesson in logic).

      I am not going to ask how many scalps you have dangling from your belt but you said you are a reservist so you know the use of weapons and the effect of their discharge on human beings. You probably have a family.
      Do you really not see what the State for Jews does to millions of innocent people with your active help? And if you do, what can the State for Jews possibly give you in exchange to compensate you for your profound PERSONAL LOSS?
      Or are you less than meets the eye as a person?

      • I never had to fire my personal gun, I might have killed Hezbulla members as part of my artillery unit in Lebanon although I was sitting in the battery command room at a time and not near the actual canons. What is it that you think I am missing?
        I support a two state solution the only way out fair to both sides. Some would say I support it to the point of dementia. I don’t believe it would end Palestinian attacks it won’t resolve the conflict, and the security situation of Israeli civilians will be worse than it is today, and still I support it. I even support a one sided unilateral withdrawal from most of the WB without even getting the Palestinian signature in return, the only thing they have to offer.
        I think you should better think of your point of view if you can’t understand why a people doesn’t willingly commit national suicide.

        • I appreciate your reply–no slogans but your honest beliefs.
          But if you believe that two states
          – would not “end Palestinian attacks it won’t resolve the conflict, and — the security situation of Israeli civilians will be worse than it is
          today”
          and you would have to cede captured land “from most of the WB without even getting the Palestinian signature in return, the only thing they have to offer”

          then why would you “support a two state solution … to the point of dementia”?
          Because you think it is “the only way out fair to both sides”?
          That’s how fair you are? To “dementia”? Is that it?

          • A lot of people were against the IDF pulling out of Lebanon a lot of people think it was a mistake no one seriously say the IDF should go back in to South Lebanon to stay there permanently. A lot of people were against the Gaza withdrawal at a time a lot of people think Israel made a mistake no one really argues the IDF should go back and rule over Gaza. Same with Palestinian cities in the West Bank today no one really wants to turn back the clock and have the IDF stationed in Ramallah or Jenin. Even though all those Israeli withdrawals turned out badly no one really think of going back to a permanent IDF presence in those places. The same will be after a withdrawal in the West Bank. Current Palestinian leadership doesn’t have what it take to make the necessary concession without which peace is not possible. We saw that when Abbas turned down Olmert which offered him everything Israel has to offer. So the only way out is for Israel to draw its own borders and separate itself from the Palestinians without allowing them to have a veto.
            I do not support that because I think it just because I feel it is fair, but mainly because out of a lot of bad option this one is the best we got.
            The Palestinians will not get any of what they want on the core issues and Israel will not get a Palestinian claim to end the conflict. If they want to get compensation for refugees, land swaps for settlement blocs, safe passage between Gaza and West Bank and so forth they will have come back to the negotiation table but at that point time will be on Israel’s side. If they want to make reasonable compromises fine, if not status quo is fine as well. The conflict will be reduced to just another minor border dispute not one of a people living under occupation.

          • This is your mistake and your government’s mistake to believe that time is on your side.

          • Palestinians refuse to sign a peace deal because they believe time is on their side and works against Israel. They say so themselves, ask Palestinian negotiators and they will tell you what they think. They think that what was offered by Barak was better than what Rabin was willing to offer what was offered by Olmert was better than what Barak offered and what ever they will be offered tomorrow will be better than what they were offered by Olmert. That is why they are making such a big issue out of the settlements. Settlements are the only thing telling them time might not be on your side, there is an urgency and if you keep waiting you might not get tomprrow what you are being offered today.
            Once Israel realigns its borders we could have a Palestinian state on about 90%+ of the land where no Palestinian lives under Israeli occupation, there will be no demographic problem.

          • This is your problem Cosmo – you believe that Israelis have the right to “offer” Palestinians bits of their land.

            Jews have sadly learned nothing from their own history. Jews believe that they are so clever that they can outwit God. Jews arrogance leads them every few hundred years into having to learn the lesson again that taking on God is not a good idea.

            “And we decreed for the Children of Israel in the Scripture, that indeed you would do mischief on the earth twice and you will become tyrants and extremely arrogant! So, when the promise came for the first of the two, We sent against you slaves of Ours given to terrible warfare. They entered the very innermost parts of your homes. And it was a promise (completely) fulfilled. Then We gave you once again, a return of victory over them. And We helped you with wealth and children and made you more numerous in manpower. (And We said): ‘If you do well, you do good for your ownselves, and if you do evil (you do it) against yourselves’. Then, when the second promise came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to make your faces sorrowful and to enter the mosque (of Jerusalem) as they had entered it before, and to destroy with utter destruction all that fell in their hands. [And We Said in the Taurat (Torah)]: ‘It may be that your Lord may show mercy unto you, but if you return (to sins), We shall return (to Our Punishment). And We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers” [Qur'an 17:4-8].

          • Olmert offered them a land 100% the size they asked for day one of negotiation, Abbas said so himself. How is that bits I am not sure. If you claim god doesn’t believe the Jewish people have a right to have their own state in the land of Israel you have been reading a different bible than I have (not that I really read any of in a very long time).

          • Abbas has no mandate to negotiate anything on behalf of the Palestinians.

            If the Jews have a right to live in Palestine they should have done so by legal means and not by stealing land and property and by ethnic cleansing.

            But because of the theft, the ethnic cleansing, the arrogance, the oppression they will again incur the wrath of God

            [And We Said in the Taurat (Torah)]: ‘It may be that your Lord may show mercy unto you, but if you return (to sins), We shall return (to Our Punishment). And We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers” [Qur'an 17:4-8].

            Or for you Cosmo in non Biblical terms “What Goes Around Comes Around”

          • “Olmert offered them a land 100% the size they asked for day one of negotiation”

            Well most of the Palestinians I know want 100% of their historic homeland. They’re not prepared to accept Bantustans on 22% (or less) of it.

            If you were a Palestinian would you be happy with a Bantustan Cosmo?

            Why notbrighten up my day and claim that Olmert offered them East Jerusalem as well?

          • Was a lot less cruel than the last time when the people of Israel came back from Egypt according to the Bible.
            So the Palestinians are now being punished by God for their ethnic cleansing of Jews from East Jerusalem, the West Bank and every place else they managed to get a hold of?

          • Roy Bard
            Olmert didn’t offer them all of East Jerusalem but he did offered them Arab neighborhoods.
            This is Olmert told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she wrote in her book “‘I know what he needs. He needs something on refugees and on Jerusalem. I’ll give him enough land, maybe something like 94 percent with swaps. I have an idea about Jerusalem. There will be two capitals, one for us in West Jerusalem and one for the Palestinians in East Jerusalem. The mayor of the joint city council will be selected by population percentage. That means an Israeli mayor, so the deputy should be a Palestinian. We will continue to provide security for the Holy sites because we can assure access to them.’”

            “That’s probably a nonstarter, I thought,” Rice writes. “But concentrate, concentrate. This is unbelievable. He continued, ‘I’ll accept some Palestinians into Israel, maybe five thousand. I don’t want it to be called family reunification because they have too many cousins; we won’t be able to control it. I’ve been thinking about how to administer the Old City. There should be a committee of people—not officials but wise people—from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinians, the United States, and Israel. They will oversee the city but not in a political role.’”

            “Am I really hearing this? I wondered,” Rice writes. “Is the Israeli prime minister saying that he’ll divide Jerusalem and put an international body in charge of the Holy sites?

            100% of their historic homeland? Did you notice that the lines of that imaginary historic are drawn exactly to where Jews live? Meaning in old maps sometime Palestine has parts of Lebanon, parts of Jordan and the Negev is not part of it.
            But they don’t really care about those parts, they don’t want 100% of their historic homeland they just want Jews to rule over 0% of their historic and current homeland. I am willing to accept a Israel less than 100% of our historic homeland and so did Israel leaders when they accepted the partition plan. If I were a Palestinian I would look for the best deal I could get and Olmerts offer was it. If things are so bad for the Palestinians in Gaza the refugee camps and so on and they really want their own state, I would say it is not worth a couple more generations of being stateless to get 1%-2% more than what is offered today.

          • “If I were a Palestinian I would look for the best deal I could get”

            yes exactly…..

            which would be the right to live anywhere in your historic homeland without being subjugated by belligerent European settlers.

          • “Olmert didn’t offer them all of East Jerusalem but he did offered them Arab neighborhoods.”

            @Cosmo – what is it with Jews and ghettos?

          • Laura Stuart, what does that have to do ghettos? I seems to be the anti Israeli side that starts raging when ever a Jew tries to move into an all Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

          • “I seems to be the anti Israeli side that starts raging when ever a Jew tries to move into an all Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem.”

            Yes – anyone who has been to Hebron will understand why. The purpose of the settlements is Judification of even more of the meagre 22% of the historic homeland. And illegal under the Geneva Convention – (unless you can show me where it says that it is only illegal to move them in by force Cosmo)

          • Why would God want the Jewish people to have a state? Why would God want anybody to have a state? Nation-states are 18th century, Western inventions, why would God concern himself with such trivial matters of real estate?

    • cosmo;
      “His personal Dr already admitted he died of Aids.”
      But one of your fellow occupiers says otherwise.
      “Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi stressed, however, that Arafat did not die of AIDS – which is caused by the virus.
      Jordanian news site Amman quoted al-Kurdi – a former Jordanian health ministry official – as saying that the virus had been injected into Arafat’s bloodstream close to his death, and that the real cause of the chairman’s death was poison.” Danny Rubinstein – haaretz
      http://mathaba.net/news/?x=561072

  4. Cosmo

    “That guy didn’t deserve a natural death.”

    promoting mass war crimes puts you in the same category with the nazi, goebbels, beyond what other disgusting crimes you are responsible for off web, so the same applies to you.

  5. as po-210 is used as part of a nuclear weapon, israel probably was initially producing it for that. while making po-210, there was an accident that was officially covered up:

    http://stopsecondholocaust.blogspot.com/2008/02/israels-deadly-poison-polonium-210.html

    “According to the book, in 1957 a leak was discovered at a Weizmann Institute laboratory operated by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Traces of polonium 210 were found on the hands of Prof. Dror Sadeh, a physicist who researched radioactive materials, as well as on various objects in the professor’s home. The AEC handled the accident with deep secrecy. After a short investigation, whose results were not presented to even the workers, the lab was hermetically sealed for several months.

    A month after the lab closed, a physics student died of leukemia. A few years later, Prof. Yehuda Wolfson, Sadeh’s direct supervisor, also died, and Prof. Amos de Shalit, the department’s director, died of cancer in 1969 at age 43.

    When the leak was discovered, Sadeh was terribly anxious, but tests indicated he was well. But according to Karpin’s book, the tests did not include his bone marrow. Sadeh and his wife hid the facts from their family and friends until he died prematurely. The cause of death was cancer.

    The Israeli authorities did not admit that the leak and the deaths were connected, but people close to Sadeh confirmed that the state took responsibility for the accident and compensated his family.”

    • note that the lab accident was in 1957. po-210 is used as part of the trigger in a nuclear weapon. that means israel was researching the triggering mechanism back in 1957. which could mean israel had nuclear weapons earlier than is usually though. possibly in early 1960′s.

  6. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexander_Goldfarb

    “After graduating from the Moscow State University, where he specialised in Microbiology, in 1969 [4], he worked in Kurchatov Research Institute of Nuclear Energy, until 1974 [5] or 1975 [6], when he emigrated to Israel and studied at the Chaim Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot [7] [8]

    He is Executive Director of the International Foundation for Civil Liberties [9]

    He is most famous for his involvement in the publicity surrounding the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London.[10] [11]”

    goldfarb was intimately connected with the litvenenko murder and also studied at the weizmann institute, one of the few entities where people died of po-210 exposure. this was in the 70′s, when the po-210 deaths there were still fairly recent events.

    how long have the israelis been using po-210 as an assassin weapon? since the 70′s? the 60′s? were those israeli scientists who got contaminated at the weizmann institute working on an assassin weapon and not nuclear triggers?

  7. @Cosmo

    So the Palestinians are now being punished by God for their ethnic cleansing of Jews from East Jerusalem, the West Bank and every place else they managed to get a hold of?

    This is not solely a Palestinian problem it is a Muslim problem, so yes you are correct the Muslims are being tested for leaving the tenets of Islam but with the current rise of Islam I have hope that there will be redress.

    The fact that the Israelis want to recreate Soddom and Gomorrah in the Holy Land should speed up the justice that will inevitably come on down on the heads of the thieves, oppressors and those who cause corruption.

  8. “What could have led Israel to the peculiar decision to nuke its prime enemies by planting polonium in their food?”

    Sadism

    “What could they have in mind when they decided to use a substance that can be provided by only a very few states and would leave radioactive traces forever?

    Letting Muslims know Israel could murder any of their leaders in cold blood with evidence clearly pointing at Israel, and the world won’t do anything to prosecute the murderers.

    “Do they really think that the Goyim and the Arabs are that stupid?”

    They do not care. Think Israeli settler behavior. Israeli settlers shoot a Palestinian in cold blood, then start dancing at the scene of the crime because they know the IDF will do nothing.

    They WANT Goyim and Arabs to think, “an Israeli can murder me in cold blood at any time and the authorities will do nothing”.

    “I agree with Dichter. It is more than likely that Israel wasn’t directly involved in the preparation Arafat’s final hummus, but we, nonetheless, should be concerned here with the strong possibility that Israel may have, probably thorough a third party, found a way to pepper Arafat’s food with the radioactive substance.”

    And this passage is what identifies Gilad as an Israeli agent.

    Every Gilad article will talk about something people concerned about Israel are interested in, like the poisoning of Arafat, but he ALWAYS inserts something like “but I agree with Israel and Israelis” somewhere within the article.

    You can’t have it both ways Gilad. Either you believe the preponderance of evidence points to an Israeli assassination, or you are concerned your cousins will murder you for what you say, so you tell them in every article “Don’t listen to what I tell the Goyim. I agree with you.”

  10. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Jul-15/180668-arafats-widow-to-lodge-legal-complaint-over-poison-claim.ashx#axzz20j4eTSAu

    “The widow of Yasser Arafat is to launch legal action in France over claims that the veteran Palestinian leader died of radioactive polonium poisoning, her lawyer said in remarks published Sunday.

    “Mrs Arafat has decided to lodge a legal complaint within the month,” the Geneva-based lawyer Marc Bonnant told Le Matin Dimanche newspaper.”

  12. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/03/the-murder-of-arafat-2/

    The Murder of Arafat – How the Israeli Quintet Indicted Itself

    “A Palestinian attorney in the Galilee has pointed the finger at those he believes are most likely responsible for the murder of former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. The accused are named and their histories cited; their own words indict them, and their acts of sustained violence speak volumes.

    The charge sheet incriminates five of Israel’s top brass:

    1- Ariel Sharon, in his capacity as Prime Minister of the Government of Israel, 2001-2006 (currently reported as being clinically dead);

    2- Avi Dichter, as head of the Shin Bet (Israeli internal security), 2000-2005 (Member of Knesset for Kadima Party);

    3- Shaul Mofaz, in his capacity as Israeli Minister of Defense, 2003-2006 (now leader of the Kadima Party);

    4- Moshe Ya’alon, in his capacity as Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, 2003-2005 (now a Deputy Prime Minister of Israel);

    5- Meir Dagan, as Director of the Mossad from 2002 to 2011 (currently a leader of a movement called “Yesh Sikkui”).”

    within the above article:

    “Mr. Jiryis has just posted on his website a revealing analysis of the historic context leading up to Arafat’s assassination, entitled: Arafat’s Murder – The Crime and its Ramifications. The essay was posted in Arabic which may limit the non-Arabic-speaking world’s benefit from this insider’s exposé.”

    http://jiryis.com/2012/07/26/%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7/

  13. to use the crude term murder is disrespectful to the memory of such a leader. it also disses the professionalism of Shin Beth, Likud, and the Mossad, which is a particularly insidious form of anti-semitic smear. let us act immediately and resolutely to restore the good names of all concerned by stating unequivocally that this was an assassination.

  14. some people seem to be dragging their feet on the investigation of arafat’s assassination:

    http://news.yahoo.com/swiss-experts-ready-help-arafat-probe-time-running-161731596.html

    “GENEVA (Reuters) – A Swiss institute has agreed to a request from the Palestinian Authority to exhume Yasser Arafat’s body and determine whether he was poisoned, but time is running out for a credible scientific examination of his remains, it said on Thursday.”

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