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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] I think there are some good reasons why it would not have come out. The first is that Arafat desperately [i]wanted[/i] it to stay a secret and could have exercised enough discipline in his own ranks to keep too many people with enough credibility from coming forward that could out it. Now, I will say that hearing that Arafat being gay these past few days was not something I had never heard [i]rumors[/i] of before. It was just more likely until now that such an idea was a smear. However, given enough effort and an inner circle that's smart enough to know how to prevent leaks, it's not impossible they kept a loose lid over this until now. There have been other leaders who have kept such secrets before. McGreevy in NJ was the latest. Lots of people thought Eleanor Roosevelt was gay. Living in Virginia, I have had several friends with connections to the Secret Service detail in the White House, and they said Hillary Clinton might have tendencies. It's possible to keep this secret enough that people not intimately aware of the latest intelligence on terrorists' personal lives could easily have never heard of Arafat being gay. As for Mossad or another organization outing him, I think there are good reasons for that not having happened. The usefulness of such information would be as a wedge to drive apart the PLO and Hamas. However, Hamas probably doesn't take what Israel says seriously, and unless it came from someone outside Israeli circles like Pacepa, it just wouldn't be credible. Moreover, there was no direct evidence of any behavior until Pacepa came forward with his testimony. Since there are plenty of other avenues they could have traveled for ways to split the leadership, they might have considered it more profitable to try the others. In addition to all that, the war between the camps has been relatively even for the past few months. Why help one side win and unite leadership that could make the other side more effective? As for reasons for traveling to France, what I've been reading lately is that the Percy hospital staff was considered most likely to be able to keep this a secret. Arafat was scared to death of his chief rival, Hamas, from using his sickness an death to peel away support from the PLO. Hamas wants to take control, and Arafat is desperately trying to keep his family and inner circle in power. It's unverifiable, I admit. But France is the most pro-Palestinian country in Europe, so it's a plausible explanation. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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