Arafat is greeted with a VIP welcome in France

The ailing jihadist seems to be a hero in France. From the Times Online, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:

YASSIR ARAFAT was being treated for serious blood disease in a military hospital near Paris last night after a flight that began with emotional farewells to the Palestinian leader as he ended nearly three years of confinement in his West Bank compound. A French Air Force Falcon 50 jet flew Mr Arafat from Amman to Villacoublay, a suburban military VIP airfield, at the invitation of President Chirac, to undergo treatment at the Percy hospital, a modern facility at Clamart, in the southwestern outskirts.

“God willing, I will come back,” the visibly frail Mr Arafat, 75, told aides as he was laid on a stretcher inside the jet in Amman. However, with his apparently grave condition and Israel’s reluctance to let him return, Mr Arafat’s departure from Ramallah had the feel of the end to a 35-year era in which he symbolised the Palestinian cause.

Early in the day, as he was placed aboard a helicopter in the battle-scarred compound, whistles pierced the air, then gave way to chants of: “Our blood; Our souls; We sacrifice for you Abu Amar.” Bystanders, bodyguards and officials wept at the sight of the frail figure in a grey greatcoat and fur hat. Rooftops and high walls overlooking the yard were lined with hundreds of Palestinians anxious to catch one last glimpse of the revered leader.

At Clamart, about a hundred supporters watched from behind the security fence as a helicopter brought Mr Arafat, accompanied by his wife, Soha, 41, to the grounds of the heavily guarded hospital. The couple were reunited for the first time since 2001 when Mrs Arafat flew from Tunis to Ramallah on Thursday....

M Chirac, in Rome for the day, said he had no information on Mr Arafat’s condition and emphasised that France was providing hospitality purely in its tradition as a humanitarian haven. However, the French welcome underlined France’s policy of close support for Mr Arafat as a central figure in the Middle East despite his fall from grace in the eyes of other Western nations. On one of his many visits to Paris, Mr Arafat joked in 1997 that whenever he had a problem, he would “go and see Dr Chirac”. The policy has angered Israel, which has tried in vain to prevent French ministers from visiting Mr Arafat in Ramallah, where he was kept under virtual house arrest by the Israeli military.

M Chirac sent a warm message of support to him on Thursday, signing off by hand “with my heartfelt friendship”.

France has come to the aid of the Palestinians several times, notably in 1982, at the end of the Israeli siege of Beirut. French troops escorted Mr Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organisation fighters from refugee camps to the city’s docks where they boarded a UN ship for Tunis.

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Arafat murdered US diplomats several years ago; is he immune to prosecutuion and above the law that he is now a VIP?

Some of this is just Chirac taking an opportunity to poke the US with a sharp stick. Sooner or later - if history is any indication - the French are going to come to us for help. When that happens, I hope we tell them, "Sorry. It is not in our national interest at this time."

The French have a tradition of collaborating with those that commit Judaicide, so this latest move comes as no surprise. Was Chiraq born in Vichy?

But why did Arafart choose France, aren't any of these wonderful new hospitals build with millions of petro-dollars around the Middle-East up to scratch? Or is Arafart, even on his death bed, still milking the Europeans for what he can get?

Given the disproportionate contribution made by French Jews to the country's economy and tax base (so the State can then build more mosques and madrassas and dole out the balance to Muslims living in the ghettos around Paris) and the effort by the French government to undermine Israel's security at every opportunity, one wonders whether perhaps Chirac has a fantasy of seeing Israel overrun by Arab armies and offering the surviving Jews "safe harbour" in France.

Where would the Islamic Republic of Iran be today if France had not offered refuge and protection to the Ayatollah Khomeini in Neauphle-le-chateau? And think of all those Iranian dissidents rounded up, or otherwise supressed, by the Deuxieme Bureau or Defense du Territoire or whatever it's called, in order to curry favor with that same Islamic Republic of Iran? Where was it that Bakhtiar was stabbed to death -- Shahpour Bakhtiar, who had been in the French Resistance, the last prime minister under the Shah? For his service to France, the French paid him back handsomely, by failing to protect him when the killers came to slit his throat and that of his assistant, and then decapitate him. It was not as if they had not been forewarned -- months before Bakhtiar's previous assistant had been murdered on a Parisian street.

So the French paid him back by failing to protect him. And they routinely break up Iranian resistance groups in order to keep those contracts going. Money, money, money. Was it the same kind of pressure, from Arabs, that made Le Monde take Peroncel-Hugoz off coverage of the Muslim world, because his book Le radeau de Mahomet showed too much understanding?

Nothing more about France need be said except the obvious: Sois-belle et tais-toi. Look around your country, and see what you have done to yourselves, and think ahead 10, 20, 30 years. Just who, in the Western world, has been foolish?

"The ailing jihadist seems to be a hero in France." Why does this not suprise me?

One day soon, Islam will turn and kick France right in the collective nuts. Bent double and puking, they will ask us for help and we will help them. I will not pity them though. They made the bed they're now lying in.

Sweden, Germany, and all the others...you might want to set aside a little money for groin protection as well.

And how ironic that at the same time as Mohamed Al husseini luxuriates in a french hospital, fawned over by his french admirers, for his contribution to reducubg the world's jewish populace, the shameful Mohamed Al Dura fraud reaches its conclusion.
that france 2 and its journalists willingly co operatate in falsifications to demonize Israel and its IDF soldiers.
Will the TV station receive the treatment meted out to dan rather of CBS by the internauts, for what is an infinitely worse calomny?
I hope that LGF, No pasarin, et al and this site will actively take up this injustice to expose the corruption of the french TV station since it will at least cause it some discomfort, since it is painfully obvious that they will refuse to comment and keep the fraud subjudice.
For those who read french
go to
http://www.menapress.com/article.php?sid=956

perhaps the essential example of the perfidity of the french press.

Posted by chevalier at October 31, 2004 05:34

I agree with everyone here. Arafat has done more to generate hatred and discord in the Middle East than anyone in the region, starting in the 1960's. He has succeeded in convincing men, women, and children to strap explosives on themselves and detonate blow themselves up in hopes to kill innocent civilians. The coward Arafat set these people out in front while he sits back getting fat and rich with his terrorist activities. Beyond any doubt, he is a terrorist of the worst kind. The rest of the cowardly Arabs will be content to have Arafat out in front to take the hammering while they cheer and support him with the hatred spread by Arafat. Arafat has installed enough hatred in the Middle East to ensure total destruction of the whole region. Arafat should have been left to rot in his “command post” tended to by all medical facilities available funded by all the aid money that poured into Arafat’s coffers. What? They don’t have the medical facilities? They didn’t have the money? Somebody has to help the terrorist? Up comes France front and center like a big hero!!! Show the terrorist a big heroes welcome!!! Give him all the free medical attention he needs!!! I call Arafat the worst terrorist of modern times and France is supporting terrorists. When all the Muslims in France progress to where they start taking over the country, I hope the rest of the world will say to France - “You worked hard for it - You bought it - You got it.”

VIP - Utter Discrace!!!

Yeah, the euro dhimmis will f#@k up europe yet again and America, despite itself will again intervene to save collective euro arse.

But this time, with a twist.

This time, the loser gets to keep france.

George -

Everyone in the world must have seen that disturbing news footage of the Palestinian father and son cowering by a wall, pinned down by a hail of 'Israeli' bullets...

And the father's grief as he cradled his son, blasted to death by the merciless Jews.

And now it turns out - as your link reveals -that it was all a scam, a FAKE - a cynical deception carried out with the collusion of a French TV station.

Why aren't all the TV stations that carried this footage 4 years ago rushing to admit that they were taken in, that they broadcast flagrant propaganda as hard news? The BBC for instance? I wonder why not.

This revelation is surprising. But not THAT surprising when one recalls previous deceptions along similar lines...the 'Serbian' snipers who shot civilans in Sarajevo and turned out to be Bornians targetting their own people... the civilians lining up for water in Sarajevo who were blasted to pieces by mortars fired by the 'Serbs' - even the UN had to admit after a protracted investigation that it was really the Bosnians blowing up their own people so they could blame it on the Serbs...

The same deception again when people lining up for bread were blown to smithereens...And the alleged cold-blooded massacre of Kosovan civilians by the Serbs which prompted Clinton to bomb the Serbian army. Except that that the 'civilians' turned out to be members of the KLA, killed in combat, stripped of their uniforms and tricked out as civilans.

Each of these atrocities in turn was front-page news around the world, and condemnation rained down on the heads of the alleged 'perpetrators' (as well as bombs in the case of the luckless Serbs.)

A pity that the media are not as quick to 'fess up that they were taken in by these cynical deceptions.

Part of the problem, I suppose, is that we in the west still find it hard to believe - even after the facts have been fully presented - that there are people out there so diabolically cruel and heartless that they're willing to shoot and massacre their own people for the sake of a momentary propaganda advantage.

Benelux -

When I first saw the film of the Palestinian father and son being fired upon by Israelis, it immediately struck me that something wasnt right -
if I were in the same position and wanted to protect my child, wouldnt it be better to lie with your whole body over him, sheltering him against the wall while you stayed between him and the bullets?

It seemed to me that the father was actually using the child for his own protection. My husband, who grew up in a similar situation to the one in Israel, agreed with my conclusion.

I wonder how many people saw it that way.

The French are beyond contempt -

Benelux
thank you for the information on the previous press dishonesties in serbia and kosovo.
any links would be much appreciated.
I have often wandered if there is a swedish syndrome that takes over, perhaps after a while, when journalists congrgate in these trouble spots. life is easier when you collaborate and ensures safety.
In the end you end up with a bunch of devil's advocates who espoese the ideals of the terrorists.
I recently met a bosnian serb refugee, an ex footballer. When i told him that i saw the Balkan conflict as an unrecognised and disguised Islamic Jihad, he almost kissed me!
He proceeded to tell me of the Horrors that he had witnessed commited by muslim jihadists.
None were ever reported on the western press.
All we ever got was Srebenica in the same way that all we got was Shatilla from the western press.
Even today, the reaction of many, when he reveals he is a serb, is one of disgust at meeting a pariah of society.
Well he is not alone, the Vietnam Vets got the same treatment from JOHN KERRY, and he may get elected next week !!!

Tziona: Your name suggests that you ought to know that the Middle East's world-class hospitals are located in Israel--albeit probably not paid for by petrodollars.

An interesting comment I once heard from an elderly Iraqi immigrant in America (albeit Mandaean rather than Muslim) was on the exodus of Iraq's Jewish population: "Ah, yes. We lost lots of professors and doctors then."

George -

Unfortunately I can no longer find the excellent site I was looking at the other day that had UN reports on various Bosnian/Kosovan atrocities which were initially blamed on the Serbs (with accompanying media 'Shock Horror' around the world), but which the reports concluded were actually carried out by the Bosnian muslims themselves.

However, here are some other links which expose the same deceptions:

Breadline Massacre, Sarajevo

http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/politics/papers/civil_war/960606.da.html

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Bosnia/Sarajevo/breadline.html

Marketplace Massacres, Bosnia

http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/bosnia_sarajevo.htm

(This article also lists other lethal deceptions by the Bosnian Muslims)

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.htl

Excellent article (from left-wing perspective) on Islamification of Bosnia with section on
'self-inflicted' deceptions:

"Not only did the incidents lead to the result desired by Sarajevo (Western action against the
Bosnian Serbs), their staging by the Muslims would be entirely in keeping with the moral outlook
of Islamic radicalism, which has long accepted the deaths of innocent (including Muslim)
bystanders killed in terrorist actions. According to a noted analyst: "The dictum that the end
justifies the means is adopted by all fundamentalist organizations in their strategies for
achieving political power and imposing on society their own view of Islam. What is important
in every action is its niy 'yah, its motive. No means need be spared in the service of Islam as
long as one takes action with a pure niy' Yah." [Amir Taheri, Holy Terror, Bethesda, MD, 1987]"

This piece should be read by anyone interested in the strategies used by muslim terrorists and
their state sponsors.


Racak 'Massacre' Kosovo

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_13_16/ai_61551806

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/yugo-f12.shtml

Additionally, there have been some articles and books by British mercenaries in which they frankly admit their role in some of atrocities attributed to the Serbs. These mercenaries were part of a unit of non-muslim fighters recruited by the Bosnians and were supposedly under the command of a Spanish journalist. Don't have references to hand but will post them if I locate them.

Hope this helps.

Some of us were there when these atrocities committed by the muslim hands happened.

There's lots more -- beleive it!

Enough said.

Kepha1,

If you think I was being serious about the sparkling new medical institutions built in the Arab world being anything other than Arab ego boosters, then it just goes to prove that SDWOTN "sarcasm doesn't work on the net." :-)

Actually, Tziona is correct. Saudi Arabia does have a couple of world class hospitals - staffed primarily by Western doctors and Phillipino nurses. Still, those who can afford it, go to the West.

Benelux
thank you for those links . will persue further.

your revelations have prompted me to wander if there is journalist embedding with terrorists? in the same way as we heard of theirs with american troups.

So we are witnessing a new effect. Probably a cousin of the swedish syndrome, where hostages for reasons of survival, actually espouse the causes of their own captors. This does not happen at first but is the result of long term exposure.
pehaps it starts as a small lie to curry favour and establish ones credentials "for the cause".
In ramallah i read of the Italian journalist who wired the pictures of the palestinians, their hands covered with the blood of the two Israelis thay had just butchered, and because he had only just arrived and did not realise that the reporting of any news detrimental to the pals was absolutely forbidden, he was spared execution.
I suggest that this effect is one that affects foreign journalists , who already hold left wing views and become more radical the longer they stay in these ares of conflict.
Ultimately they become mouth pieces or apologists for those terrorist groups such as Al ZAqwari's murderers.
Perhaps we could call this the ROBERT FISK syndrome ?

"Decryption" made by The two French Sephardic Jews who made, "Decryption" the movie that exposed Agence France Press's bias, pinpointed a number of problems with Middle East reportage, only one of them being the taint of embedding journos like Fisk in exotic locals where they get to feel like they are doing something vitally important to the world when they are, in fact, being used to parrot propaganda.

France has at least two problems vis Israel/Palestine -- guilt/shame over Algeria for their role as colonials who conducted a pretty savage war against the "liberation" movement, paired with guilt/shame over its Jewish population from Dreyfuss to Vichy France; and

the swelling Muslim population they would rather not further provoke.

And, I remind again (fogive the redundancy):

Robert Spencer's book Islam Unveiled is not translated into French because of death threats to translator and/or publisher.

Chirac is 'warmest friends' with this murderer, and heads a government that created the possibility of a fascist, murderous Islamic Republic in Iran, that is now near threatening the world with nuclear weapons. And, he presides over a nation bursting with Jew-hatred, a nation in which anyone who speaks out against Islam is subject to terror.

Look at France. Look at what it is, has become, and is becoming folks. How can the French live in their skins?

And for the record, here is a link to the infamous, 'I was about to cry' report from the BBC.

I was about to cry I love him so much...

NO TO BBC JIHADIST, PRO-ISLAM PROPAGANDA!!!

The unrelenting bullshit...

Farewell arafat,
you disgusting evil man
with rheummy, wild eyes,
spittle in the corner of your mouth,
you vile creature,born of anger,
raised in hate, a murderer
who stole from his own,an arrogant arab,
a charlatan whose fate will be
to be forgotten in the archives of time,
slime who lied and lied again,
your sins are too great to enumerate,
but suffering and a painful death
will be your last days on earth,
payment in like kind as you slowly
lose your mind, peeing in your pants
while you rant against the Jews and Zionists
and twist the truth with your last breath.

and the dhimmis can't save him
and the demons of hell will take him
and his soul will be consigned
to the endless, dark abyss.

IS ARAFAT SUFFERING FROM AIDS?
His homosexual activities have been known for years ever since the early egyptian days.
How could Arafat if he were an adis sufferer be transported to any middle eastern hospital?
The scandal would tear aprt the middle east.
But france, surely willing to suppress any suc diagnosis, would be the ideal choice to receive treatment.

IS ARAFAT SUFFERING FROM AIDS?
His homosexual activities have been known for years ever since the early egyptian days.
How could Arafat if he were an adis sufferer be transported to any middle eastern hospital?
The scandal would tear aprt the middle east.
But france, surely willing to suppress any suc diagnosis, would be the ideal choice to receive treatment.