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2004-11-09 Israel-Palestine

Yasser Arafat 'Dead' - Palestinian Sources Say

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Posted by Steve 2004-11-09 9:06:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Fat Lady's been waiting for this...

Posted by Fred 2004-11-09 9:12:48 AM|| 2004-11-09 9:12:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 And it's off to the pub we go.. hurrah!

Posted by Howard UK 2004-11-09 9:17:41 AM|| 2004-11-09 9:17:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Fox just said that they will pull the plug soon. I propose a larger fat lady than ususal. Time for a new graphic.

Posted by Ol_Dirty_American 2004-11-09 9:32:44 AM|| 2004-11-09 9:32:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 is said to have expired minutes after Palestinian PM Qureia visited him at Percy hospital in Paris

Qureia: "Oops, I tripped over this cord! What did I do?"

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-09 9:41:09 AM|| 2004-11-09 9:41:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Why is this pillow over Arafat's face?

Posted by ed 2004-11-09 9:44:26 AM|| 2004-11-09 9:44:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Is he dead yet?

(Apologies to tu3031.)

Posted by Mike 2004-11-09 10:08:07 AM|| 2004-11-09 10:08:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Rosebud? The account password is rosebud?"

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-11-09 10:17:16 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-11-09 10:17:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 if ~~Sooey~~ Suha sings, does that count?

Posted by PlanetDan 2004-11-09 11:10:47 AM|| 2004-11-09 11:10:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Well is he?

Posted by tu3031 2004-11-09 11:12:59 AM|| 2004-11-09 11:12:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 "This is an EX-AFAFAT!!"

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-11-09 11:16:35 AM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-11-09 11:16:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 They don't believe in Euthanasia?

So if he's brain dead they could keep him alive on life support for the next 20 years????

In the name of Yasser, I declare the Intifada over! Yasser, if you don't agree just say so!

In the name of Yasser, we declare that Israel has the right to exist! Say something, yasser! no objections? Great!

Wonder if we'll ever find out how much he stole.. is it really only $500 million? Is it $6 billion? Who will get it?
Suha? She hasn't lived with him for 4 years....

What are the odds I could claim to be a long lost lovechild and get a mill or two?

Posted by Anon1 2004-11-09 11:18:27 AM|| 2004-11-09 11:18:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Is it me , or does his wife look and behave like Miss Piggy from 'The muppetshow' ?

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-09 11:54:57 AM|| 2004-11-09 11:54:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Bet he died days ago and they claimed "life" while they sorted out the order of succession.

Posted by Brutus 2004-11-09 12:00:03 PM|| 2004-11-09 12:00:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 MacNails,
She does, She does indeed,
But you cant just call an honorable MOSLEM lady
Ms. Piggie, can you ????)

Posted by Elder of Zion 2004-11-09 12:02:11 PM|| 2004-11-09 12:02:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 To be sure he's dead and to make sure he stays dead, either beat his pointy little head with a baseball bat, or put a bullet into it. :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-09 12:08:09 PM|| 2004-11-09 12:08:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 ObLucyVanPelt:

"'Rosebud' was his goat." "AAAARRRGGGHHH!"

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-11-09 12:49:49 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-11-09 12:49:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Arafat is a thug and the god father of all terrorism. His PFLP and Black September groups trained all the terrorists of the 70's which spawned this great mob of crazies we have now.

I want to throw up everytime BBC, CNN or ABC come on and talk about Arafat's last hours.......I would be dancing on the anchor desk and throwing confetti.

His body should be cut in little pieces and scattered in the Negev. Can't use him for shark bait..professional courtesy.

Maybe we'll actually have a chance for a real peace process?

Posted by SOG475 2004-11-09 1:02:13 PM|| 2004-11-09 1:02:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 So, Steve or anyone else in the medical profession: is "bleeding in the brain" an effect of AIDS, or associated with it?

Posted by Mike 2004-11-09 1:07:04 PM|| 2004-11-09 1:07:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I love the dog fight between Suha and the Fatah gang. I bet she is found floating in the Sein soon. Heck they might whack her at the funeral! We are talking about a butt-load of cash here.

Posted by Omeatle Omavise4424 2004-11-09 1:14:03 PM|| 2004-11-09 1:14:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I want to throw up everytime BBC, CNN or ABC come on and talk about Arafat's last hours.......I would be dancing on the anchor desk and throwing confetti.

Anybody other than me remember a stand-up comic named Moms Mabley? Anyway, one of her signature riffs was a series of one-liner put-downs of her deceased husband. I remember her appearing on Dick Cavett or some such show once, and there was an exchange kind of like this:

MOMS: [one-liner trashing the dead guy]
CAVETT: But, Moms, don't you have anything good to say about the dead?
MOMS: He's dead. That's good.

Let that be Arafat's epitaph.

Posted by Mike 2004-11-09 1:16:20 PM|| 2004-11-09 1:16:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 "Getcher hands out of yer lap, Luther! You'll go crazy!"

Posted by Fred 2004-11-09 1:27:29 PM|| 2004-11-09 1:27:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Soha, Suha, Sofa..also bears an uncanny resemblence to "Boy George." Could there be something going on there?

Posted by Sgt.D.T. 2004-11-09 4:32:43 PM|| 2004-11-09 4:32:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 In honor of the day this sand rat dies I began to write like I've never written:

Arafat is dead.
He's dead, I said.
The cock's in a box
With rocks on his head.

R.I.P. (Rot in Perpetuity)

Posted by Dr. Seuss 2004-11-09 6:23:51 PM|| 2004-11-09 6:23:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 LOL Fred en Mike!

Mom's was Gods own comik. Beyond blue.

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-09 6:38:31 PM|| 2004-11-09 6:38:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 thanks Elder of Zion , i somehow missed that little gem :) ooh boy im getting slow in my old age :P

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-09 6:42:59 PM|| 2004-11-09 6:42:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Let's begin at the beginning ... (ahem)

I ~~SPIT~~ PISS ON YOUR GRAVE, ARAFAT.

So if he's brain dead they could keep him alive on life support for the next 20 years????

Indeed, this may be Israel's greatest fear. The PLO might wax and varnish him like Stalin so as to keep his memory alive far longer than many of us would care to imagine. Merely one more reason to blow straight out of the sky, whatever plane carries his body back to wherever.

However, let us not mince words, SOG475 has hit the nailhead:

Arafat is a thug and the god father of all terrorism. His PFLP and Black September groups trained all the terrorists of the 70's which spawned this great mob of crazies we have now. I want to throw up everytime BBC, CNN or ABC come on and talk about Arafat's last hours.......I would be dancing on the anchor desk and throwing confetti. His body should be cut in little pieces and scattered in the Negev. Can't use him for shark bait..professional courtesy. Maybe we'll actually have a chance for a real peace process?

For all of the above reasons, I am currently mixing and hoisting in Israel's general direction, Martinis that are dry enough to make you fart dust.

Posted by Zenster 2004-11-09 11:11:53 PM|| 2004-11-09 11:11:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 There was a guy in a village that I used to live in that drank so much that he had to be on life support. He stayed on that for weeks, but he steadily went away. As a courtesy to the family I visited him. Pretty depressing seeing a dead guy on a ventilator. Eventually the family pulled the plug. I think that the PA is buying time before they pull the plug. I do not think that even the French will let the charade go too long.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-09 11:22:37 PM|| 2004-11-09 11:22:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 TV sez he "slipped deeper into a coma". I translate: they're now storing him UNDER the bed.

Zen, mix a martini for me.

May bees pee upon him. *burp*

Posted by Seafarious 2004-11-09 11:26:36 PM|| 2004-11-09 11:26:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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