the only point i was making was that this article manages to draw from a perfectly statistically accurate observation entirely the wrong conclusion: namely, that the israeli offensive was successful in the sense of putting a damper on arafat and palestinian support for suicide bombings, hamas, the plo, etc. etc. it seems to me that the timing of the article coincides suspiciously conveniently with dubya's BS speech this afternoon . . .
j
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 07:39 PM, Cian wrote:
> Arafat's popularity did go down though after the
> israelis let him out of the bunker. Palestinians
> (probably rightly) thought he had done a deal with the
> Israelis. Then he compounded that by refusing to go to
> see one of the towns after the Israeli attack (I'm
> tired, so can't remember the name).
>
> I agree the conclusions drawn by the article are
> dubious, but I don't think Arafat is particularly
> popular with the Palestinians. Ironically the only
> thing he has going for him is that Sharon is so
> determined to get rid of him.
>
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