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“The Tunisian government has issued an arrest warrant for the widow of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in connection with a corruption investigation into the “International School of Carthage”, the Tunisian state-run news agency reported on Monday. The International School of Cartage was founded by Suha Arafat – wife of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat – and former Tunisian First Lady Leila Ben Ali Trabelsi, wife of ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In 2007, the Tunisian authorities withdrew Suha Arafat’s Tunisian nationality…………..”

Interesting: Yasser Arafat spent many years flying around Arab capitals like a King Lear, kissing kings and potentates and dictators (he had no choice; these were the only kinds of Arab leaders available). He did end up in an enclave or hamlet in the West Bank. His widow prefers more amenable pastures to the available bit of “Palestine” she talks a lot about.
Somehow the Palestinian leadership, the PLO and Fatah, caught the usual Arab ruling-classes bug: they got fat and rich and distant. As corrupt as any other Arab potentates, dictators and absolute tribal monarch. After Oslo, once the aid money started flowing again.
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mhg


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