Even closer to home, the Arab regimes, in particular Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, took to privately and publicly condemning Arafat for rejecting a “generous” Israeli deal. As former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told me, “There was this idea that when Arafat will be out of the game, then everything will be easier”.
Revisiting #Arafat ‘s last days by Clayton Swisher
Source: blogs.aljazeera.com
