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To: The Letter Editor February 4th, 2005 Sir, Sub.: Arafatism' should disappear It was a good sign when Abu Ala and Abu Mazen ousted fast from the Palestinian government all six ministers considered puppets of the late Arafat. But recently, watching the TV covering of the Egyptian-Israeli-Palestinian meeting or Mubarak-Sharon-Abu Mazen peace-talks in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt, I was unpleasently surprised to see huge Arafat posters being on the wall in the background. As a ninty-year-old consumer of media and of history, I have had the opportunities to see the rise, the rule and the fall of several evil regimes; nazism, stalinism and 'arafatism' to name a few. The simple rule I observed is that a society can be healed of a sick period only when it is ready to denounce its previous evil leaders and regime and brings down their statues and symbols. The Palestinians will be mature for having their own democratic state only when they are ready to strongly denounce their past terror and terrorist leader. One shouldn't trust in any lip service instead.
Respectfully, Ernest Nadai Pinner, Middlesex England |
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