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| Israel-Palestine |
| Arafat the monster |
| 2004-11-12 |
| 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. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 lets also remember: "Feb. 21, 1970: SwissAir flight 330, bound for Tel Aviv, is bombed in mid-flight by PFLP, a PLO member group. 47 people are killed" |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-11-12 4:40:44 PM |
| #2 Best Epitaph: "The son of 60,000 whores" Syrian Defense Minister |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-11-12 10:14:27 AM |
| #1 Tipper, thank for recalling the PLO's victims at Ma’alot. Arafat is paying the highest price for each of those little ones and the thousands he ordered butchered in Israel, the Lebanon, Jordan along with American citizens plus so many others . |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-11-12 8:45:14 AM |