Watch for an avalanche of unctuous eulogies for this jihad terrorist and master manipulator. Why, here comes one now, from AP (actually, this one is not nearly as bad as what I am sure we'll be seeing soon):
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla leader turned Nobel Peace Prize winner who forced his people's plight into the world spotlight, died Thursday at age 75 — still reviled by many as a terrorist.
Read that carefully. "...the guerrilla leader turned Nobel Peace Prize winner..." As if he couldn't have won it without ending his guerrilla activities, and as if there really was some change in his modus operandi. Both assumptions largely false. And then there's "still reviled by many as a terrorist," by which AP means something comparable to "Mahatma Gandhi died today, revered by millions but still reviled by some benighted fools as an agitator." In this case, however, it would have been more accurate to say "This terrorist fooled enough people to get the Nobel Prize, but in the end, he was just another terrorist murderer."
Arafat died at 3:30 a.m. in a French military hospital. His last days were as murky and dramatic as his life. Arafat was flown to France on Oct. 29 after nearly three years of being penned in his West Bank headquarters by Israeli tanks.He initially improved but then sharply deteriorated as rumors swirled about his illness. Neither doctors nor Palestinian leaders would say what killed Arafat.
"Murky and dramatic"? What is murky and dramatic about his death? No one will say what killed him; the obvious conclusion is that he died of something embarrassing. He was poisoned -- maybe by the cutthroats who have been playing "He's dead, he's not dead" for a week, or he died of AIDS, as has been widely rumored. "Murky," maybe, but "dramatic"? This is not James Bond getting sawed in two by a laser beam.
Meanwhile, the old killer is lionized at home:
Tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into the streets of the Gaza Strip in a spontaneous show of grief. Dozens of gunmen fired into the air, and marchers waved Palestinian flags.Mosques blared Quranic verses and children burned tires on the main streets, covering the skies in black smoke. People pasted posters of Arafat on building walls.
Within hours, former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was chosen to succeed Arafat as leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia was expected remain in charge of day-to-day governing....
Palestinian flags at Arafat's battered Ramallah compound were lowered to half staff. Television broadcast excerpts from the Quran with a picture of Arafat in the background.
"He closed his eyes and his big heart stopped. He left for God but he is still among this great people," said senior Arafat aide Tayeb Abdel Rahim, who broke into tears as he announced Arafat's death.
And also lionized abroad:
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he was saddened by Arafat's passing."President Arafat was one of those few leaders who could be instantly recognized by people in any walk of life all around the world. For nearly four decades, he expressed and symbolized in his person the national aspirations of the Palestinian people."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent condolences to the Palestinian people.
"President Arafat came to symbolize the Palestinian national movement. ... (and) led his people to an historic acceptance and the need for a two-state solution," Blair said.
At least one sentence here points up the fact that he was Palestinian Arabs' worst enemy, and by sponsoring terror and allowing the jihad ideology to grow unchecked, he destroyed all hope for peace:
Ordinary Palestinians prayed for his well being, but expressed deep frustration over his failure to improve their lives.Arafat's failure to groom a successor complicated his passing, raising the danger of factional conflict among Palestinians.
A visual constant in his checkered keffiyeh headdress, Arafat kept the Palestinians' cause at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But he fell short of creating a Palestinian state, and, along with other secular Arab leaders of his generation, he saw his influence weakened by the rise of radical Islam in recent years.
...which made him turn ever more toward that radical Islam -- not that that was a great departure for him, as he had invoked jihad for decades. And as for "falling short" of creating a Palestinian state, he had plenty of chances -- which he himself torpedoed.
Revered by his own people, Arafat was reviled by others. He was accused of secretly fomenting attacks on Israelis while proclaiming brotherhood and claiming to have put terrorism aside. Many Israelis felt the paunchy 5-foot, 2-inch Palestinian's real goal remained the destruction of the Jewish state.Arafat became one of the world's most familiar faces after addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York in 1974, when he entered the chamber wearing a holster and carrying a sprig. "Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun," he said. "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."
That is what's known as a "threat."
Two decades later, he shook hand at the White House with Rabin on a peace deal that formally recognized Israel's right to exist while granting the Palestinians limited self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The pact led to the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for Arafat, Rabin and Peres.But the accord quickly unraveled amid mutual suspicions and accusations of treaty violations, and a new round of violence that erupted in the fall of 2000 has killed some 4,000 people, three-quarters of them Palestinian.
The Israeli and U.S. governments said Arafat deserved much of the blame for the derailing of the peace process. Even many of his own people began whispering against Arafat, expressing disgruntlement over corruption, lawlessness and a bad economy in the Palestinian areas.
Yes. I have spoken with many of them who knew what he was: a bloodthirsty hypocrite and media manipulator.
A resilient survivor of war with Israel, assassination attempts and even a plane crash, Arafat was born Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa on Aug. 4, 1929, the fifth of seven children of a Palestinian merchant killed in the 1948 war over Israel's creation. There is disagreement whether he was born in Gaza or in Cairo, Egypt....After the Arabs' humbling defeat by Israel in the six-day war of 1967, the PLO thrust itself on the world's front pages by sending its gunmen out to hijack airplanes, machine gun airports and seize Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
"Seize"? "Seize"? How about "murder in cold blood"?
"As long as the world saw Palestinians as no more than refugees standing in line for U.N. rations, it was not likely to respect them. Now that the Palestinians carry rifles the situation has changed," Arafat explained.
"Arafat became one of the world's most familiar faces after addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York in 1974, when he entered the chamber wearing a holster and carrying a sprig. "Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun," he said. "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."
That is what's known as a "threat.""
You bring up a good point, Mr. Spencer. I had never really thought of it that way. And, more than likely most of the Rubes in the UN didn't get that point either.
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/monty-python-parrot.html
That pretty much sums up the last two weeks.
Well folks, we can now see how Mohommad grew from a terrorist thug to a leader of billions of people in the world today. I now understand how and why the Muslims accept him as a phophet from God. Why you ask? Islam is without standards, without morals - a backward society that embraces and supports the most evil men amongst them while their common man lives simply to emulate that evil.
It's difficult to imagine that anyone outside the Muslim world would have an ounce of sympathy for him, but just peek at the news around the world. Take a look at Blair and Jack Straws comments on "poor Arafat"! It's enough to make the common, decent man ill and condemn much of humanity among us today that agrees with those sentiments.
The lying, deceitful mass murdered Arafat, will be revered as Mohommud was. But this time we are now experiencing first hand the making of a yet another terrorist thug ascending to Islams "greatest heroes, prophets and saints".
Yasser Arafat R.I.P.P (rest in pigs piss)
Good riddance to bad rubbish, may your soul burn eternally in the darkest pits of hell you inhuman scum, the blood of innocent israelis is on your demonic hands, and you will suffer intensly for each of them . May the rest of your nomadic land grabbers join you soon.
There is no "Palestine".
"Yasser Arafat R.I.P.P (rest in pigs' piss)," writes Rikki. I do not know how anyone could improve upon that sentiment and phraseology.
Yes, it is a better day. Old AIDS ridden Yasser can orgy with his bodyguards no more. Yasser so fully and completely represented Islam at its very best. Imagine his surprise to discover that there is no Allah, no Paradise, and he does not have 72 pearl onions to bugger now. It is too much fun to think about.
A dear friend of mine sent this, and I think readers will enjoy it:
Yasser Arafat, in a coma in a Paris hospital, suddenly opened his eyes and saw several doctors surrounding his bed. apparently agitated, he asked, Where am I? What am I doing here?" The doctors told him that he hadn't been well, and he was flown to Paris to receive a diagnosis of his condition. Now, quite agitated, he asked, "So, what is my condition? What is
the prognosis?" The doctors told him the prognosis was not good, and he had a terminal illness. Then, he was really agitated, and he asked, "So when will I die?" The doctors looked at the floor, the ceiling, the walls .....
anything to avoid eye contact with Arafat. Eventually, one doctor said, "You will die on a Jewish holiday!" Now, he got extremely agitated, and demanded to know "Which one will it be?" "It doesn't matter," the doctor
replied. "The day you die will be a Jewish holiday!"
I heard he was dead...and now am waiting to hear "he is just sleeping" once again...they switched back and forth from a regular nap to a dirt nap for the godfather of terrorism so many times I wonder if they realized how foolish they were looking. Even if he is actually dead I dont think it will bring any peace to that region...it is as Golda said...there will be peace when they love their children more than they hate us...will that day ever come? I doubt it.
Today on the morning news I heard that palestinians in Canada have no hijacked out "Rememberance Day" by lowering the Canadian falg to show repspect for a homosexual terrorist.
For the next fews days Muslims can sign a book of condolence for this non-Canadian hero,the lowering of Canada's flag is meant for mourning a Canadian that was a National hero for human rights
struggles or social justices.
Muslims have spit on the graves of all the dead soldiers by using our national day of rememberance to depict Arafat as a Canadian hero
by lower the flag to half-mast.
I fear that from now on Novemebr 11th will be Arafat-day with all the parades and flag burnings of the Israeli and US flags. This disrespect for Western democracy make it very clear why CAIR is demanding Shariah-Law in Canada and the teaching of Islam in Public schools.
NO ISLAM - KNOW PEACE
ISLAM MUST Gogh
The son of a bitch is dead. My beloved and I drank a cup of wine and danced the hora in our livingroom. Even the dogs seemed to celebrate and circled us, barking, "He's not even good enough for dog meat, the treif bastard". And in the background Hanan Ashrawri picking up where Yasser left off by telling the Fox reporter that all through the years he fought for the Palestinian "cause" -- Yasser was a man of peace. It was Ariel Sharon and Israel who refused it -- G-d,what a dog!
May he rot in hell!
It really did become absurd didn't it? He's just sleeping... that is priceless. Just imagine his surprise when he split hell wide open- no smooth boys waiting, just the knowledge that he has been deceived and now will remain in outer darkness for eternity.
What a shame, he has lost the chance to become the worlds first suicide bummer.
One great era in history has come to a close with the demise of another world enemy - Arafat. There are those who look back and think he was a great man and did great things - (Peace Prize by devious means), - did not learn Arafat was an enemy even to his own people. They did not learn he amassed a fortune for himself by pilfering aid money that was intended for his people, leaving them in poverty. The did not learn he did his utmost to install intense hatred even in children to ensure generations of nothing but conflict, killing, and murder for his people. No, he was not a hero but his people’s worst enemy. He should be sent to his paradise by way of a hole in the sand, accompanied by a pig. However, sadly, for those who don’t learn from history, history will repeat itself. History has proven that.
Arafat is still dead.
LOL.
Thankfully, there will be no resurrection.
Shall we dance?
This from CNN - the more things change, the more they stay the same:
Palestinians Attack Settlement After Arafat Dies
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=NW_1-T&oldflok=ne-world-12-l14&flok=FF-RTO-roitz&idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20041111%2F0647416304.htm&sc=roitz&photoid=20041111GAZ109
I'm thinking that Hitler will greet Arafat in the presidential suite in hell. Keep a seat "warm" for Sadaam guys!!
What is the diagnosis? Promised as various times, not by doctors, but PA spokespeople, "one day", "five days", and then comments like, "he's not dead", "we're talking to him", "he's almost dead", "he not dead again"...Oh, OK, he's dead now. But what is the diagnosis promised to us?
According to the BBC,
"On the day of his death, hospital officials would still not give the cause of his ailment, citing strict French medical privacy law."
One more, 'don't ask, don't tell secret' about a man who left nothing but destruction and suffering in the wake of sordid life.
And no one seems to care.
Today, Chirac called Arafat a "man of courage and conviction". And he pulled out all the pomp and finery of the French army to give Arafat a memorial reserved for heads of state.
And tonight, on a BBC World interview, Kiirsty Lang gave Hanan Ashrawri a lengthy opportunity to to talk of Arafat's love for children, his kindness, generosity and sense of humour.
Not once did Lang question this glowing portrayal.
Nor did she have the courage to ask the question that was screaming to be asked: love for which children?
The whitewash has begun.
Whitewash this:
http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief3-6.htm
http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org/A-094-Arafats-Terrorism-Threatens-Christians-and-Christian-Sites-Not-Just-Israel.html
http://www.masada2000.org/arafat-plo.html
http://middleeastinfo.org/article2094.html
...on and on...
Google "Arafat terrorism" and it will yield 1,110,000 results. How many Nobel Peace Prize laureates can claim this honorable distinction??
After this disgusting caricature of a human being turned to carrion, the Arabs that this creature called "Palestinians" again took center stage. There they were taking the opportunity to blame Israel for what killed the little piece of offal.
Then there was Tony Blair bleating about a "Palestinian people that had lived there for over 3000 years.."
"Today on the morning news I heard that palestinians in Canada have no hijacked out "Rememberance Day" by lowering the Canadian falg to show repspect for a homosexual terrorist."
So Canada did it too? I was listening to talk radio today and a caller called in and said he had been down by the UN today in New York and saw the flag at half-mast. Curious, he sought someone out to ask about it. The man he spoke to, someone who worked at the UN, told him it was due to Arafat's passing. The man was floored. Immediately he countered, "When Ronald Reagan died, did you fly the flag at half-mast too?" The man looked back at him with incredulity and said, "Of course not!"
So, there you have it. The UN will lionize a murdering, theiving scumbag and ignore the man who almost singlehandedly ended the cold war. Kind of tells you that the UN recognizes their own, eh?
Ala-Sux,
You think thats sick, you ought to hear the latest from the UK.
Several shopping centres are to ban Santas Grottos in case it "offends" non-christians (in other words muslims).
Political correctness is out of control, and will eat itself. The people of the west won't stand for this ridiculous, unfair, spiteful bullshit much longer.