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Originally Posted by Dudesky
Real easy, if he wasn't playing ball as Russia wanted.
Arafat was in the way. If I remember he was a major obstacle to the peace process. With him out of the way Russia could broker a deal and gain global stature in the peace process instead of the US.
What do you think?
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Maybe so. Maybe Russia thought they could play a role in the Levant by undermining the PLO and supporting his opposition. Looks like it blew-up in their faces as the folks who took over are run out of Damascus and Tehran, not Moscow.
What would Israel stand to gain with a dead Arafat? Arafat was the only thing holding the violently militant, Shiite Islamists in check. If anything, Israel had an interest in keeping the PLO in power and the PLO was Arafat. Anybody could tell the PLO would dissolve into factions without Arafat.
I'm betting Iran-Syria. Iran has reactors and could make Polonium. It only takes 50 nanograms to poison somebody.