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Israel-Palestine
Israel would allow direct flight to Gaza for Arafat burial
2004-11-07
TEL AVIV - Israel would allow direct flights into Gaza in the event of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's death in France, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Saturday. The reported change in policy would allow representatives from hostile Arab countries to enter Gaza and attend an Arafat funeral without passing through Israeli border controls.
I'm sure Mossad is drooling over the possibilities ...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would allow several so-called good will guests to visit Arafat's successor, Haaretz said. Israel will also loosen humanitarian restrictions in the Palestinian territories, assuming that any new Palestinian leadership would take action against militants and enforce a ceasefire.

Israel and the Palestinians have already disagreed over a prospective burial site, with the Sharon government insisting that he be buried in Gaza. Arafat had always wanted to be buried on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which the Israelis categorically reject. "Arafat will not be buried in Jerusalem, just as Osama bin Laden will not be buried in Arlington National Cemetery," Sharon spokesman Ra'anan Gissin told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Friday.
The proper analogy, even!
Posted by:Steve White

#6   I see soap opera like farce ahead, where no one wants Arafat's body.

Kind of like that barge of garbage from New York, a few years back, that no one wanted. It got shipped all over the place before it found a home.
Posted by: SteveS   2004-11-07 2:16:59 PM  

#5  No mention of Arafat's rather direct connection to Hitler's genocide would be complete without the appropriate link.

NEVER FORGET! NEVER AGAIN!
Posted by: Zenster   2004-11-07 12:41:00 PM  

#4  Arafat should be buried where he was hatched, in Egypt, a fact the 'Pal' Arabs tend to 'overlook'.

Oh, and on the tombstone his real name would be nice for a change as well, His real name is Rahman Abdul Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, the nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during the Nazi era. Uncle Husseini assisted the Nazis on condition that they would murder all the Jews in Palestine once they had won the war.

Birds of a feather...

Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-11-07 2:35:17 AM  

#3  Debka is reporting the French have told the paleos to take the body. I see soap opera like farce ahead, where no one wants Arafat's body.
Posted by: phil_b   2004-11-07 2:25:02 AM  

#2  â€œArafat will not be buried in Jerusalem, just as Osama bin Laden will not be buried in Arlington National Cemetery,”

Thank you for pointing that out, Mr. Sharon. I was worried that State was going to come up with that idea as a good will gesture. [/sarcasm]
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-11-07 1:56:18 AM  

#1  Arafat buried in the Temple Mount?

Only if every single necrophiliac's pr*ck is buried in his corpse first.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-11-07 1:47:46 AM  

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