Israeli Analyst Sees Bush Speech Political Assassination for Arafat

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Israeli Analyst Sees Bush Speech Political Assassination for Arafat

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U.S. President George W. Bush's latest speech on Middle East is a political assassination for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and a huge triumph for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, an Israeli analyst said in Jerusalem Monday.

David Landau, a political analyst for Israeli newspaper Haaretz,made the comment in an article right after Bush's speech in White House late in the day.

Landau said in the article that "Yasser Arafat, the seemingly immortal leader of the Palestinian national movement, was politically assassinated Monday by U.S. President George W. Bush."

Arafat's role as Israel's prospective partner in any future diplomatic process was effectively snuffed out by the stern-sounding American president, the article added.

At the same time, Landau wrote that "the president (Bush)'s speech is a huge triumph for Ariel Sharon".

Since the end of last year, the Israeli prime minister seemed naive when he pledged to render Arafat "irrelevant", but now he haswon his case convincingly before "what for Israel is the highest court of world opinion: the U.S. government," the article said.

It noted that the U.S.'s expectation is that despite an initial outburst of rancorous resentment, the weight of opinion among majorArab players will turn against Arafat and then will hasten his downfall.

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