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I just hope all doesn't break loose with this. It'd be nice to see some competent leadership in the Palestinian cause, but I doubt it seriously.
Say hi to Satan for me Yasser.
I just hope all doesn't break loose with this. It'd be nice to see some competent leadership in the Palestinian cause, but I doubt it seriously.
Adios, er.
I actually hope he goes to heaven, because he will have too much fun in . That's his kind of people down there.
Screw that, he can go join the 9/11 Nineteen and all the Fallujah ers in the cess pool that is .
Good ing riddance.
Nbadanallah must be in mourning...
They should cremate the bas with a pig and mix the ashes in with the lead used in Israeli ammunition.
Okay, so I'm looking at a timeline of Arafat's life on MSNBC's website.
Funny, but they skipped right over his organizing the brilliant massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. No mention of his innovative and, yet to be patented, exploding-hijacked airliner. And, one of his more notable achievements -- the mass murder of 10,000 Christians in Lebanon -- nope, nowhere on the list.
Jeeze NBC, give the man his due.
Yasser didn't seserve to die like that... he should have died from making a porno with Magic.
lol base, there are a lot of rumors that he made movies with young boys though...
Arafat is only half the problem to the Palestinian and Israeli problems. I wonder how many here will be cheering and elated when Sharon passes?
Well Sharon's gonna have to put up or shut up. If he doesn't get this deal done now with new Palestinian leadership, he'll be just as bad as Arafat, and people will be glad when he's gone.
A lot of his hate has developed from having to deal with Arafat's rather hypocritical ass for basically his entire military/political career, so you can't blame him for being a little jaded.
With all the world powers, especially Bush, saying the time to broker peace between Israel and Palestine is now in the wake of Yasser's going bye bye, I think Sharon is going to have to do the bidding of the West.
I don't think it will come to that though, I think both sides realize that their ongoing war isn't going to solve anything.
No matter the new leader, the PLO won't deal with Sharon there is simply to many hard feelings, to much bad blood between the Palestinians and the Sharon government. However, if Israel was in the future to elect more of a Centrists, and he could deal with the illegal settlers in the West Bank, and deal with the Jerusalem problem - yeah, that's a big if, there could be a chance for peace in that area. Just not today.
Bush: Who died last night?
Cheney: Yasser.
Bush: Just answer the question did someone die last night?
Cheney: Yasser died last night sir.
Bush: We're alone so you don't have to be so formal.
I'm glad that er is dead. I'm rarely happy to see somebody die, but this time, I'll put a little extra butter on my muffin this morning to celebrate Yasser's passing.
Hope you like it in , .
Let thee without sin.....oh never mind.
Joe...you're not defending that piece of crap are you?
It's views like your own that will probably prevent it getting done!
God damn people...give the man some dignity. He did do some great things, terrible, but great things nevertheless. Let the man die in peace.
Reminds me of a movie le..."I spit on your grave."
He didn't have dignity when he was alive. Why should he have it when he is dead?
Because he's dead.
Nothing like compassionate conservatism is what I always say.
LMAO. I wish I could on his grave.
In case my meaning wasn't clear...Arafat was a filthy vomitous piece of excuse for a human being and the world is a worse place for him having lived. He should be buried in a jewish sewer.
It's an indictment against the human race that we let him draw as many breaths as he was allowed to draw.
Suprised it came out of a Boston rag:
Boston Globe
YASSER ARAFAT died at age 75, lying in bed surrounded by familiar faces. He left this world peacefully, unlike the thousands of victims he sent to early graves.
In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were hanged at Nuremberg. In a better world, the French president would not have paid a visit to the bedside of such a monster. In a better world, George Bush would not have said, on hearing the first reports that Arafat had died, "God bless his soul."
God bless his soul? What a grotesque idea! Bless the soul of the man who brought modern terrorism to the world? Who sent his agents to slaughter athletes at the Olympics, blow airliners out of the sky, bomb schools and pizzerias, machine-gun passengers in airline terminals? Who lied, cheated, and stole without compunction? Who inculcated the vilest culture of Jew-hatred since the Third Reich? Human beings might stoop to bless a creature so evil -- as indeed Arafat was blessed, with money, deference, even a Nobel Prize -- but God, I am quite sure, will damn him for eternity.
Arafat always inspired flights of nonsense from Western journalists, and his last two weeks were no exception.
Derek Brown wrote in The Guardian that Arafat's "undisputed courage as a guerrilla leader" was exceeded only "by his extraordinary courage" as a peace negotiator. But it is an odd kind of courage that expresses itself in shooting unarmed victims -- or in signing peace accords and then flagrantly violating their terms.
Another commentator, columnist Gwynne Dyer, asked, "So what did Arafat do right?" The answer: He drew worldwide attention to the Palestinian cause, "for the most part by successful acts of terror." In other words, butchering innocent human beings was "right," since it served an ulterior political motive. No doubt that thought brings daily comfort to all those who were forced to bury a child, parent, or spouse because of Arafat's "successful" terrorism.
Some journalists couldn't wait for Arafat's actual death to begin weeping for him. Take the BBC's Barbara Plett, who burst into tears on the day he was airlifted out of the West Bank. "When the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound," Plett reported from Ramallah, "I started to cry." Normal people don't weep for brutal murderers, but Plett made it clear that her empathy for Arafat -- whom she praised as "a symbol of Palestinian unity, steadfastness, and resistance" -- was heartfelt:
"I remember well when the Israelis re-conquered the West Bank more than two years ago, how they drove their tanks and bulldozers into Mr. Arafat's headquarters, trapping him in a few rooms, and throwing a military curtain around Ramallah. I remember how Palestinians admired his refusal to flee under fire. They told me: `Our leader is sharing our pain, we are all under the same siege.' And so was I." Such is the state of journalism at the BBC, whose reporters do not seem to have any trouble reporting, dry-eyed, on the plight of Arafat's victims. (That is, when they mention them -- which Plett's teary bon voyage to Arafat did not.)
And what about those victims? Why were they scarcely remembered in this Arafat death watch?
How is it possible to reflect on Arafat's most enduring legacy -- the rise of modern terrorism -- without recalling the legions of men, women, and children whose lives he and his followers destroyed? If Osama bin Laden were on his deathbed, would we neglect to mention all those he murdered on 9/11?
It would take an encyclopedia to catalog all of the evil Arafat committed. But that is no excuse for not trying to recall at least some of it.
Perhaps his signal contribution to the practice of political terror was the introduction of warfare against children. On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot. They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terrorists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students. By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children.
Thirty years later, no one speaks of Ma'alot anymore. The dead children have been forgotten. Everyone knows Arafat's name, but who ever recalls the names of his victims?
So let us recall them: Ilana Turgeman. Rachel Aputa. Yocheved Mazoz. Sarah Ben-Shim'on. Yona Sabag. Yafa Cohen. Shoshana Cohen. Michal Sitrok. Malka Amrosy. Aviva Saada. Yocheved Diyi. Yaakov Levi. Yaakov Kabla. Rina Cohen. Ilana Ne'eman. Sarah Madar. Tamar Dahan. Sarah Soper. Lili Morad. David Madar. Yehudit Madar. The 21 dead children of Ma'alot -- 21 of the thousands of who died at Arafat's command.
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