Hatem Bazian: Professorial Conspiracy Theories

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com


            



"Although recent French medical reports suggested otherwise and that he died of natural causes, yet we are left to ponder the reasons and the hands that carried out the murder not whether it was a murder."

-Hatem Bazian
Al Jazeera 

Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian is a two-trick pony who divides his time trying to delegitimize Israel and pushing the Islamophobia line that Muslims are being persecuted notwithstanding the fact that Muslims are the world's greatest practitioners of religious persecution in the world today. In this article written recently for Al Jazeera, Bazian tries to make the argument that:

1 Yasir Arafat really was poisoned-even though the French just announced from their forensic tests that he was not.

2: The Israelis ordered it.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/why-was-arafat-killed-201312394616797450.html

Rather than try to argue all the conspiratorial arguments as to why the Israelis had a motive to kill Arafat, let me cut to the chase on a couple of points.

First of all, it has not been proven that Arafat was murdered. The French report refutes it (Huffington Post/Reuters).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/yasser-arafat-not-poisoned_n_4377739.html

Of course, the Israelis had a motive to kill Arafat. He was a terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of innocent human beings. Were I in charge of Israel, I would have ordered his death decades ago.

However, with Bazian's "evidence" you couldn't put a dog in the pound.  All he has is his suspicions. When you have as much blood on your hands as Arafat, it may be surmised that a lot of people might have had a motive. Maybe some Palestinians were upset at the millions Arafat and his wife stole. At the time of Arafat's death, his wife was living in luxury in Paris.

Until Bazian can produce real proof, this belongs right up there with claims that LBJ had JFK assassinated and the white "establishment" had Malcolm X murdered.

Hopefully, Professor Bazian is not spouting this black helicopter stuff in his classroom.