Who killed Arafat

The body of the ex-leader of the Palestinian autonomy of Yasir Arafat will be exhumed. Such an order was given by the chairman of the Palestinian National Administration, Mahmoud Abbas. On the eve of Al Jazeera, the AL JAZEera television channel could be the cause of Arafat’s death. This was allegedly discovered by scientists from the Swiss Institute of Radiophysics in Lausanne. They conducted a study of various things in Arafat and found out that on his clothes, as well as in the discharge, there was an increased content of the radioactive element of the Polonia-210.

PublicPost found out from experts who was interested in the death of Arafat in 2004 and whether it was worth "turning the dead."

Evgeny Satanovsky, Director of the Institute of the Middle East

Maybe the Arafat was killed, or maybe he was always alive as Lenin, or maybe he was killed not by Polonium, but by some other Shakespeare's hero? I do not really trust Al Jazeera after the Libyan and especially Syrian campaign. Al Jazeera, from the point of view of informativeness, can be multiplied by zero. Which relevant editor or correspondent needed to throw this information - I do not know and do not want to understand. I do not buy Al Jazeera. When the media gives information, you need to look at who gives and why. Maybe programs, channels, packages of channels began to be sold poorly. Maybe tomorrow they will write about green men. Maybe there is a decision to chase the Palestinian leadership and Rais Abu Mazan. If Arafat was poisoned, then one of his terrarium of like-minded people did it. Or maybe they once again say - "And these are all Jews and Israel." Well, I don't know what Emir Katara tells them there ...

Heydar Jemal, Chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia

Who could stand the murder of Arafat is a rhetorical question. Naturally, Mossad could stand behind this. How much can you trust Al jazeera? Well, here, you see, they turned to Swiss specialists.

It is suspicious only by the behavior of Sukhi Arafat (wife Yasira Arafat - PP) and the leadership of the Palestinian autonomy, which nervously behaved. I think there is a big dispute - to publicize it or not to make public. If yes, and behind this, as the majority is sure, the murder, the elimination of Yasir Arafat, this will lead to an explosion of indignation, and then the leadership that sits in Jerusalem will be deprived of maneuver, and it will be pressed to the wall. And all political avuars will go to Hamas. They are already in an unenviable position. If information is published, then they have no other way as soon as it is a strict confrontation. But there will also be a large -scale explosion of indignation around the world to Israel. I think now the backstage Israeli negotiators are doing everything possible, including direct bribery, in order to block this information. And I associate precisely with this indignation of dry Arafat that the information passed by her. That she does not control the situation. She, like a pragmatic woman, could rather agree with the Israelis, and so - the subject of negotiations leaves her.

The main thing after the death of Arafat is a matter of a successor. That is, if he dies the old, let's say, sharply and unexpectedly, then this is one alignment of forces. If he dies, slowly fading away, showing everyone in his arms with a trembling finger at someone, then this is another option. And so - an unexpected death, a certain figure acts, enjoying hidden support from Israel, and no one disputes it. He says: “It was like that,” and that was an oral disposal, and no one disputes him. And who will argue can eliminate that. It is also usually done. It’s like after the death of Stalin: the alignment was such that Beria somehow naturally climbed into the boots of the leader. Not for long, but at first no one could argue with him.

Maxim Shevchenko, journalist, head of the Center for Strategic Research of Religion and Politics of the Modern World

The fact that the Arafat is poisoned, I heard from the first day of his murder. Representatives of different Palestinian factions told me about this, I have a good relationship with the Palestinians - with both Hamas and Left. The fact that Al Jazeera is now spreading, once again confirms that their suspicions were not without reason. The moment and the method of murder is the Polonium, which was killed by Litvinenko, such a rare move - for me, evidence that the murders of Arafat and Litvinenko were planned from one center. If so, then the question: of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, Russia was always accused, but was Russia interested in killing Arafat? The answer is obvious - no. Arafat was a kind and reliable partner of Russia. Evgeny Maksimovich Primakov, who at the time of Arafat’s death was in political force, was his friend. Therefore, the murder of Arafat could not proceed from the Russian special services. Who was interested in killing Arafat? This, of course, is Israel and, of course, the USA. Because intifada began, problems began in connection with the Sharon and his campaign, etc., etc. Etc. And now the third part of our logical conclusion: if it is obvious that Israel and the United States are interested in eliminating it, do we exclude the opportunity that the same interests were the initiators of Litvinenko’s death? Question: It would seem - absurd? What is the relationship of Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian special services, who was engaged in the Caucasus and published constantly on the Caucasus Center website, was related to Israel and the United States? But Litvinenko was the man of Boris Berezovsky, and in recent years he often visited Israel under his name, collaborated with Israel, etc. Litvinenko collaborated with Alexander Goldfarb, who has been an American agent for many, many years. He does not hide this, and he is proud of it. I personally do not exclude that Arafat and Litvinenko have the same initiators of the murder and, perhaps, the same executioners.

Alexey Malashenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Arabist, political scientist

I think that we are not interested in tossing all this. In any case, it would be interesting only for some Palestinian street. Arafat is no more. This is a person who went down in history. To replay it all, to play to the truth: who poisoned it? How and for what? - Let the conspiracyologists write about this, or the fiction writers are engaged in this. And now this is an additional factor, but not very large, to shake the situation. You can blame anyone, and the reasons can be found - from his political position and ending with his commercial affairs. If a book was published, a novel about how Arafat was poisoned, I would read with pleasure. And now there are much more interesting events that take place in Syria and Egypt. And to turn the dead ... I do not respect it.

Alexander Goldfarb, Head of the International Civil Fear Fund

I don't know about Arafat. I would trust this story more if it was launched not al-Jazir, but CNN, but much less-if the Channel One. Let it be dug up, conduct an independent investigation - and then it will be possible to talk about another case of a state attack, since Polonius is a direct indication of the participation of the state.

I greet any mention of Polonia in the media in every way, because this does not allow Litvinenko to forget the case. This applies even to Shevchenko’s statements, because among the public smart people are much more than fools. Fools believe Shevchenko. Smarts look at him - and immediately everything becomes clear.