Abu Mazen/David Kelly


Posted by Helena Cobban
September 5, 2003 2:45 PM EST | Link
Filed in Palestine 2003-05

I just quickly want to say this about Abu Mazen, whom I know a little, and whose career I have followed for some 30 years now. He is a very decent person who sincerely wants his best for his people and the world.

Why, when I follow his news these days, do I keep getting so eerily reminded of David Kelly, the British WMD specialist whose frustrations with his job led to the tragedy of his suicide (and to the ongoing drama of the Hutton Inquiry into his death)?

I think it's the strong sense I have of each of these two decent, slightly shy men being ground between historical forces that are much larger and much more ruthless than they are, and whose ruthlessness these gentle people can only guess at.

Kelly was hung out to dry, essentially, by the ruthlessness of the Blair government, including both the coterie around Blair and the folks at the MoD (but also by the British media and the strutting egos on the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee).

Abu Mazen, for his part, is being royally hung out to dry by Sharon (who now seems to be openly gloating that he's "off the hook" regarding the Roadmap), by Prez Bush, whose promises of supportive intervention have led to nothing (but also, secondarily, by his old comrade-in arms, Yasser Arafat).

Someone, someone, please throw Abu Mazen a life-line before he feels compelled to follow Kelly's path.



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