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Syria's Rants
By Micah Halpern

Sunday January 22, 2006

I've Been thinking:

Bashar Assad, the president of Syria, has accused Israel of assassinating Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat in November 2004.
Assad made this claim while addressing a Syrian lawyer's convention.

Crazy? Well, that's open to debate.
But there definitely is a method to Assad's madness.
Assad wants to circle the wagons and deflect attention from himself within the Arab and Muslim world.
Pressure is being brought upon Assad to cooperate with the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri.
He is lambasting Israel in the hopes of gaining Muslim sympathy.

This accusation cannot and will not create a stir - not because the world is not amenable to anti-Israel conspiracy theories, because this source is not credible.
Those who already believe the theory will continue to believe it, but Assad will not convince a single additional person.

Israel's Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz put it bluntly. He said. "Assad is an ophthalmologist who cannot see."

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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