This couldn't have been plotted better by a scriptwriter. In an action heavy with symbolism, looters affiliated with Hamas have broken into Arafat's home, trashed the place, and stolen everything they could...including his Nobel Peace Prize. Since Arafat was dedicated to the destruction of Israel no less than they were, but was just cleverer about concealing it (witness the fact that he received the Prize at all), and readily used the rhetoric of jihad especially in his Arabic-language speeches, this is fitting: Hamas is the natural outcome of his life's work, and thus the most fitting inheritor of this great commendation of that work.
It's all the more fitting since Arafat's Nobel is a symbol of Western willful blindness and pusillanimity, of which Hamas has lately been the beneficiary also.
"Looters raid Arafat's home, steal his Nobel Peace Prize," by Khaled Abu Toameh for the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Mladen Andrijasevic:
Enraged Fatah leaders on Saturday accused Hamas militiamen of looting the home of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City."They stole almost everything inside the house, including Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize medal," said Ramallah-based Fatah spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman. "Hamas militiamen and gangsters blew up the main entrance to the house before storming it. They stole many of Arafat's documents and files, gifts he had received from world leaders and even his military outfits."
Abdel Rahman said the attackers also raided the second floor of the house and stole the personal belongings of his widow, Suha, and daughter, Zahwa. "They stole all the widow's clothes and shoes," he added. "They also took Arafat's pictures with his daughter."
"Most of the looters were just ordinary citizens," they said. "They stole almost everything, including furniture, tiles, water pipes, closets and beds."
According to the Fatah spokesman, the raid on Arafat's house, which has been empty since 2001, occurred despite promises from Syria-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to prevent such an attack.
Would someone please tell Hamas where Jimma Carter lives.
so much for the adoring of Arafat by his people. l think they know him more than ol Jimmy Carter that is why they have no shame to rob him clean, as Afrafat robbed his people and much of it still sits in Swiss banks.
Do you think we will see these priceless artifacts for bid on ebay? Perhaps the rioters should have been told that no one ever knew exactly what Arafat died of and possession of his belongings will be at their own peril. Also, why has Hamas not chopped off the hands of these thieves? Is this not actionable theft under the laws of the Islamic state? Wasn't Arafat part of the Ummah?
Lol. Man, this is getting better every day.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA . . .
He didn't deserve it, anyway. Whoever's got it is as entitled to it as Arafat was.
Well they gave it to the inventor of dynamite so it's no surprise it was given to a walking bomb.
David wrote:
"Is this not actionable theft under the laws of the Islamic state?"
No. It's booty. Muslims are entitled to booty.
And they have been killing people all over Gaza. Why should they worry about theft? Besides, does anyone here see Suha leaving Paris to file charges?
Great! From one terrorrist to another terrorrist's hand!
I am sure poor Arafat must be rolling his grave. THe psychpatic society he created is bearing the results, but not exacly what he expected.
Oh, the irony....
This is just too funny
Arafat is dead so the hypocritical "peace" prize should be in a living terrorists hands, its only natural.
"Well they gave it to the inventor of dynamite so it's no surprise it was given to a walking bomb".
Comment by BlowHammed
Actually Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and he is the founding father of the Nobel prize. He willed the formation of the Nobel prize in his will a year before his death in 1895. The first Nobel Prizes were not awarded until 1901.
The only reason Yassar Arafat was recognised for the Nobel prize is because he signed the Oslo accords in 1994 despite his continued support for terrorist attacks against Israel. Arafat later reneged on his commitments under the Oslo Accords.
David England, you beat me to it !
I was going to say, watch for the peace prize on eBay. Maybe they will be selling the booty to raise money for their noble jihad.
Oh, I hope you can all appreciate the sheer beauty of it!
This can only be topped if they give Arafat the Papa Doc treatment: dig up his remains, scatter his bones in the parking lot and mangey stray dogs fighting over them.
Come to think of it: what are the chances that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee will provide Suha with a replacement copy? After all, they are Norwegians.
Re: Hamas looters steal Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize
It's in the right hands now. It is now with those who give Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize its true meaning and value.
Of course, even now, there will be people who will say its Israel and George Bush are to blame for everything that's not worked out as planned in Oslo.
I'm checking ebay right now!
"Slightly dented Nobel Peace Prize medallion- never used- best offer".
Hamas: Jimmy Carter's home is in Georgia. G-E-O-R-G-I-A (Jo-jah). Certainly you can find a few unearned prizes there. And he will invite you in for tea and peanuts.
No, NO, you stupid infidel dogs, Chairman Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize was stolen by the JOOOZ! By the filthy Zionists, by the Mossad, and by the CIA and by the British!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The darlings of Europe's multiculti left. Such nobility, such character. The same people of Gaza who at night sold off the dam protecting their village (a truckload of dirt at a time) and then drowned in their own shit.
"Do you think we will see these priceless artifacts for bid on ebay?"
David England,
Priceless artifacts? They're TRASH.
That Nobel Peace Prize medal was TRASH. Arafat made it so.
Where ARE the widow and daughter? They're certainly not guarding Arafat's "legacy". Are they still in France living off the money stolen from Western donor countries who were stupid enough to listen to lies?
Also, Alfred Nobel created the prize out of remorse at the fact that his invention was used (at the time) more for warfare than for peaceful uses.
But it's on days like this that J/W can provide some priceless comedy. Also, if Arafat deserved the Nobel Prize, why not Hamas? And rather than wait for ever for a committee in Oslo to give it to them, they might as well get it the quick way - the way they did.
As for his home being ransacked, couldn't have happened to a nicer person. Too bad Suha wasn't at home.
Greetings:
1) Suha Arafat ain't worried about no 2001 threads. She's got Paris
and Dior and Chanel.
2) Jimmy Crack Corn and - guess what - I don't care.
George Bush told them they could take it.
Watch for MSNBC updates...............
That's too cruel...to the dogs
I'm waiting for the headline - "Hamas loots all of Gaza and then stands around wondering where their own stuff went."
It seems the moslem way to steal everything that isn't nailed down, and then some of the stuff that really was nailed down. It doesn't matter if it's your neighbor's, your parent's, or even your own family's stuff, Just Steal It.
HAHAHAHAH - Just day dreaming - Michael Jackson singing the new theme song of islam - "Just steal it!"