Uri Avnery On The Assassination Of Yasser Arafat

If Joe Biden was here and sober, he'd say the assassination of Yasser Arafat was a big fucking deal.  Averny is an experienced observer of Israeli society and politics, so his analysis is quite useful.  The idea that Arafat was going to deliver a form of stability to both Palestine and Israel--to the great detriment of the political careers of the vile Likudniks like Sharon and Netanyahu--and was killed because of it is more than an atrocity and represents more than a crime against Israel.  It represents a crime against humanity.