Will Yasser Arafat be assassinated by the Israelis?

Poll requested by little human.

Yes slowly but by making it look like ‘natural’ causes, maybe they'll spike his hummus so that he develops a nasty in-growing toenail prone to serious infection :-o

One can hope, but I think he will die of natural causes.

He was cloned years ago and since then he is in jail :nahnah:

Mashallah only 11 votes :hehe:

i need another option.. "Who cares?"

^agreed with pakabroad

50% said no.

Wow

Yes. He is trapped like a mouse in a cage. I can an "errant" missle falling in his compound.

Again, I hope I am wrong on this one.

God Forbid!

Wow

Yes and no are very close. 8 vs 7.

Now with the current assasination, any change of mind? :rotato:

he's too lame to be assassinated....

It's open season. It doesn't really matter any more.

Israel was just testing the waters and by the hot air responses and no substance, I think they can target anyone and get away with it now.

Would be politically incorrect....at least one p** has to survive.

Hezbollah leader would be next not him....

its only a matter of time.

nah, arafat is treasure for the isralis cause he's a an embarrasment for the palistinians. I think hes more likely to be killed by his people, the palis. nothing substantial, just a gut feeling.

I think they will get him indirectly.

:hoonh:

US warns Sharon on Arafat threat

Arafat: No stranger to Israeli threats

The United States has insisted that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon honours a promise not to harm the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat.
Earlier, Mr Sharon said he had told President George W Bush at talks last week that he would no longer be bound by a pledge made three years ago.

Mr Arafat himself has said he was not afraid of the Israeli prime minister’s threat.

Israel accuses Mr Arafat of supporting Palestinian militants.

We consider a pledge, a pledge

Bush official

Mr Sharon told Israel’s Channel Two that in his first meeting with President Bush three years ago "I accepted his request not to harm Arafat physically.

**“But I am released from this commitment. I release myself from this commitment regarding Arafat,” he said. **

A senior Bush administration official was quoted by Reuters as saying: "We have made it entirely clear to the Israeli government that we would oppose any such action and have done so again in the wake of these remarks.

“We consider a pledge, a pledge.”

Mr Sharon’s comments about Mr Arafat come just over a week before a crucial party vote within his Likud party on his unilateral plan for a withdrawal from Gaza.

President Bush gave his support to Mr Sharon’s proposal describing it as “historic and courageous”.

But in the last month, Israel has killed both the spiritual and political leaders of Hamas in missile strikes on Gaza.

The BBC’s Rob Watson says that the US was widely criticised in the Arab world and beyond for its failure to condemn those attacks and is clearly in no mood to face another diplomatic storm should Yasser Arafat be targeted next.

Rebuke

After Mr Sharon’s comments, Mr Arafat remained defiant.

“I am not afraid of Sharon’s threats. He has a history of attempting to target me,” he told an Israeli Arab member of the Knesset, Ahmed Tibi.

At the beginning of April, Mr Sharon earned a rebuke from the US after he warned Mr Arafat not to “feel immune”.

And on Friday the US State Department said it remained opposed to any attempt to assassinate Mr Arafat.

“Nothing has changed in the US position,” spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters.