# Israel Should KILL Arafat and get It OVER WITH?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-should-kill-arafat-and-get-it-over-with/130016>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 28, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-should-kill-arafat-and-get-it-over-with/130016 "2002-09-28T14:42:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-should-kill-arafat-and-get-it-over-with/130016/21 "2002-10-01T21:56:15Z")

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**aldibironti** :

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> Figure 10-20 years before Armageddon. Can it be averted? Possibly, if the US uses its muscle to impose a solution on both sides. The only feasible President who would follow such a path is a Republican one (‘Fuck the Jews! They don’t vote for us anyway.’, as one of the Republican grandees so memorably put it). Democrats are completely in thrall to the Jewish lobby.

This doesn’t resemble the reality as I see it, including on this board. Democrats–what with their bleeding hearts–tend to favor the US pressuring Israel to make more concessions to the Palestinians while Reps favor getting tough.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-should-kill-arafat-and-get-it-over-with/130016/22 "2002-10-03T00:52:06Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ElJeffe \*  
> What Latro meant - and I think you probably knew this - is that it’s considered acceptable (or at least more acceptable), generally speaking, to go to war with someone, and have your army kill thousands of their soldiers, but it’s not okay to specifically assassinate the leader.

Agreed, but…

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> \*Originally posted by ElJeffe \*  
> Now, if you think that soldiers fighting in a war is always necessarily the same as murder, then I can’t really help you.

… if you think that the Palestinians have an army, then I can’t really help you.

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