The recent reports that Yasser Arafat may have died of poisoning are not new, as similar reports had surfaced after he passed away on 11/11/2004. These reports peaked after he died in a French hospital, before waning as time went by, only to resurge recently, after a report said that polonium, a toxic radioactive material, was found in high concentration on the clothes he had left behind. I have always maintained that Abu Ammar was poisoned, and that the war criminal Ariel Sharon had ordered him to be killed. But God punished Sharon with a stroke that has since left him, years ago, neither alive nor dead. And when he finally dies, he will go to hell, to become its firewood. I do not have any information to add to what has been published on the issue, so I will share with the readers today a story about the day Abu Ammar mistakenly thought he was about to drink poison. At the Baghdad summit in May 1990, Abu Ammar asked for the Palestinian delegation to meet Saddam Hussein, who refused his request. Yet, the Palestinian leader insisted until Saddam finally agreed. Abu Ammar and members of his delegation sat on one side of a table, opposite Saddam Hussein and senior figures of the Iraqi regime such as Izzat al-Douri and Taha Yassin Ramadan. Saddam then looked at the Palestinians contemptuously and said: Why do you want to meet me? You are traitors. Abu Ammar replied: That is not fair, Abu Uday. How can you accuse us of treason? Saddam Hussein said: We know everything. You in Tunisia are making contact with the Americans and the Israelis, and are attempting to negotiate with them in secret. However, Abu Amar's reply was that the Palestinians cannot liberate Palestine all the way from Tunisia, and for this reason, they were attempting to make diplomatic contacts to defend their cause. It seemed that Saddam Hussein was not convinced, and went on to repeat accusations of treason against them, before he told his Palestinian visitors to remain silent and listen. He then opened a large dossier in front of him and said: We killed Said Hammami, we killed Izz al-Din Qalaq, we killed Naim Khader, etc. Saddam then closed the dossier abruptly, and said: Now we will open a new page. This is when Abu Ammar and the members of his delegations began thinking about how they can escape with their lives. Tea cups were then offered to the attendees, but the Palestinians refused to drink any for fear they may be poisoned. Saddam Hussein noticed their reluctance and said: You think the tea is poisoned? He then grabbed a cup and drank. The Palestinians remained reluctant so Saddam took another cup from another tray and drank it. The Palestinians then followed suit and drank, then left Baghdad after that. Abu Ammar is now deceased, but I have other witnesses to the story, as I heard it at the time, including members of the Palestinian delegation such as Abu Mazen, Abu Alaa and others. After the incident, I heard more about the visit to the summit, and the Iraqi official treatment of the Palestinian delegation. For example, I heard that the Iraqis gave the Palestinians a private plane to take them back to Tunisia, and that their breakfast consisted of beans, barbecued meat and kabab, and so on and so forth...as I heard from members of that delegation. Ultimately, Abu Ammar was not poisoned by Saddam Hussein, but by Ariel Sharon. The news about the poisoning of the late Palestinian president coincided with the passing of the terrorist Yitzhak Shamir, the former Prime Minister of Israel who was behind the murder of Lord Moyne, British minister of state in the Middle East when he was in Cairo, and the assassination of the international peace envoy Count Bernadotte in Jerusalem. Shamir was born in Poland and his original name is Icchak Jeziernicky. Like every Israeli prime minister before and after him, he changed his name, because they are all ‘mongrels', war criminals and terrorists who stole Palestine from her native people. Shamir engaged in terrorism when he was in Irgun, then in Stern. Yet the government and press in Israel mourned him as a hero, which proves that they are all terrorists and no peace is possible with them. Israel is the mother of all terrorism. Were it not for its terrorism in Palestine, the region and the whole world, the national liberation movements accused by Israel of terrorism –to deflect the accusation from itself- would not have been founded. The survivors of Hitler's Holocaust have perpetrated what they had originally fled, with Western collusion. The history of Shamir's family claims that members from it had perished in the concentration camps or at the hands of their Christians neighbors in Poland. However, it was the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims who ultimately paid the price for this, and still do. [email protected]
