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Israel-Palestine

Arafat's Bedroom Farce

2004-11-10

Commentary By Daniel Pipes, EFL:

It is hard to find words adequate to describe the malevolent 40-year long career of the world's longest reigning terrorist. This is a man who fouled his nest in Jordan, Lebanon, and the West Bank and Gaza; a moral monster who fooled the world into thinking he had reformed (remember that Nobel Peace Prize?).Yet his farcical death-scene provides perhaps the appropriate coda to an unworthy life.

... as well as the occasion for innocent mirth...

The end is as preposterous as what came before, only much funnier. First, there is the wife, Suha, a Greek Orthodox convert to Islam who nonetheless continued to observe Christian holidays and now bellows out "Allahu Akbar" as she spends a reputed $100,000 a month living the good life in Paris.

"MINE! THE MONEY'S MINE! I NEED THAT MONEY!"

Then there are the long-suffering minions, hoping to get their day in the sun, free at last of their irascible, unpredictable, domineering leader. Finally, there are the hapless French politicians, stung by their own stupidity in sending a military plane to Jordan to retrieve Arafat to Paris, then treating him like royalty (including a courtesy visit by President Jacques Chirac), only to find themselves parties to his death-bed antics.

"He's dead, Jean-Louis!"
"HE AIN'T DEAD! LOOK! HIS FINGER MOVED! HE'S TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH US! WHAT'RE THE ACCOUNT NUMBERS, YASSER?"
"He's not dead! He hasn't named his successor yet! Yasser! Yasser! Who's gonna succeed you? Blink yer eyes, dammit!"
"Get yer foot off that oxygen hose, dammit!"
"He's been poisoned, you can tell! It wuz them Jews as dunnit!"
"He's brain dead!"
"No he ain't. He's always like that!"

Go read the whole thing.

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