US has betrayed Israel Japan edition, USA edition

• Published in: The Financial times (London ed.)
• Main Author: Brook, Yaron
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: London (UK) The Financial Times Limited 27.09.2002
• Subjects: Prime ministers; Territorial Disputes; Terrorism; Middle East; Americas; Mediterranean; United States > US; Pacific Rim; Israel; North America

Mr [Yassir Arafat] is as much a terrorist as Osama bin Laden and he deserves the same fate. It is extremely hypocritical of President George W. Bush to hunt down terrorists half a world away and at the same time prevent Israel from capturing and prosecuting terrorists such as Mr Arafat in its own ba...