Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is in great danger from Israel, his foreign minister Nabil Shaath said. "There are grave threats against president Arafat. Israel is talking again about the possibility of invading his headquarters," Shaath told reporters upon his arrival here early Mondy.
Israel "is not content with besieging Arafat, they continue threatening to attack him, either to arrest or expel him," Shaath said and called on the global community to protect the aging Palestinian leader.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon's spokesman Ranaan Gissin raised the possibility Sunday of Arafat's disappearence from the political stage, if not the occupied territories. "... When people say 'he's the leader and he's doing this' well, they haven't had the opportunity really to see what it means to live, or to behave or to act without Yasser Arafat calling the shots, literally," Gissin said Sunday, according to AFP.
However, Sharon later quashed talk of Arafat's expulsion during an emergency cabinet meeting, Israeli television reported, and Arafat angrily rejected the Israeli charges against him in a telephone interview with US Fox News television channel. (Albawaba.com)
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