Following are excerpts of a column published by Yasser Arafat's
Fatah faction of the PLO in the official Palestinian Authority
newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda on September 16, 1998.Arafat's Fatah: Dennis Ross is a 'Racist Zionist Shylock'

Following are excerpts of a column published by Yasser Arafat's
Fatah faction of the PLO in the official Palestinian Authority
newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda on September 16, 1998. The article is
entitled "Windmills".

"President Clinton recently vowed to abide by his commitments and
to support the peace process in the Middle East The first thing
President Clinton must do is remove Dennis Ross from the entire
Middle East issue, because President Clinton knows that the source
of the Palestinians' suspicions regarding the mediator's bias and
unfairness is Dennis Ross' behavior and his ideas, which lean
towards the policies of Netanyahu. Similarly, Ross himself knows
that he is undesirable to the Palestinian side and that he is part
of the oppressive racist Zionist actions which are armed with
immense imperialistic influence Dennis Ross amuses himself on his
visits like Shylock, deriving pleasure from imagining how he will
slice three percent [a reference to the negotiations over
percentages of territory] from the body of his victim. It does not
enter his mind that the spilling of blood will be unavoidable.
Brother Abu Ammar [Yasser Arafat] knew that Ross' visits would be
a waste of time - a Palestinian experience with windmills, where
there is noise but no milling and a process but no peace. Thus, he
[Arafat] asked President Clinton to send Mrs. Albright as a sign of
his seriousness. In addition, she more accurately reflects the
policies which Clinton wants, and not the policies sought by the
Likudnik Zionist lobby in the American Administration and in
Congress, which are being pursued by Dennis Ross."