Abbas gives final okay to exhume Arafat's body

[shaayecanaan]

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/abbas-gives-final-okay-to-exhume-arafat-s-body-1.449975

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has given final approval to dig up Yasser Arafat's remains and is also pressing for an international investigation of his predecessor's mysterious 2004 death, a top aide said Monday.

The decision came days after a Swiss lab detected elevated traces of a lethal radioactive agent on clothing said to be Arafat's.

Testing Arafat's bones could offer the last chance to get to the bottom of Palestinian claims that their leader was poisoned, though some experts cautioned it may already be too late for conclusive answers.

Several Palestinian officials have charged that Israel poisoned Arafat. The French doctors who treated Arafat in his final days did not present a clear cause of death, while Israel emphatically denied it killed the Palestinian leader.

[MADem]

1. How do we know someone from Hamas didn't do it?

There was a lot of tension between al Fatah and Hamas at the time of Yassir's death.

Why would Israel kill Yassir? It makes absolutely no sense. Yassir was the devil they knew. He was not intractable, he knew how to maintain a status quo even when he wouldn't move forward, and he was WAY easier for Israel to work with than Hamas, certainly.

[azurnoir]

2. actually we do not as of yet know anything

however while Arafat was "devil they (Israelis) knew" there was the 2nd intifada to be avenged and Arafat was not nearly as pliable as Abbas who was his known successor