Ok... I bit my tounge long enough. I'm sick of Arafat already! For two weeks we had constant breaking news updates on his health. "He's got cancer, no AIDS, he's fine, he died, no wait he is alive again!" Now finally everyone agrees he is dead. I know we are to have respect for the dead. In fact, that's about the only thing I can respect when it comes the this man.
I was really sickened to see the news coverage that surrounded his death. As our troops are fighting nutcases in Iraq that would kill their own mother to prove a point, the media honors a model and hero for these type of scumbags. I think someone needs to add the following to his obituary:
Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa Al-Husseini, more commonly known as Yasser Arafat was the fifth of seven children born to a Palestinian textile merchant on August 24, 1929. His Palestinian terrorists flew three hijacked planes to Jordan and blew them up on September 12, 1970. By September 24, the Jordanian army had defeated the Palestinian forces. Most of the Palestinian leadership, including Arafat fled to Syria, and later Lebanon, where they soon set about undermining the central government. In September 1972, a terrorist arm of Fatah, murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. On March 2, 1973, members of the PLO murdered U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo Noel and chargé d'affaires George Moore. On November 13, 1974, Arafat made an unprecedented appearance before the UN, wearing his military uniform with an empty holster [he was forced to remove his pistol before entering the chamber] around his waist, and declared, “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” The PLO helped destabilize Lebanon and contributed to the civil war, during which Arafat and the PLO were responsible for the persecution and murder of thousands of Lebanese citizens. Palestinian fighters also mounted intermittent cross-border attacks against Israel, which provoked repeated Israeli counterattacks in an effort to prevent the Palestinians from threatening Israelis in the north. Finally, in June 1982, Israel mounted a full-scale assault that escalated into the Lebanon War. He will always be loving remembered for his refusal to express any willingness to abandon the goal of destroying Israel or using terror to accomplish his objective. One of his most heinous was the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship on October 7, 1985, during which Palestinian terrorists shot a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger named Leon Klinghoffer and dumped his body overboard. Israel agreed to withdraw from 97% of the West Bank, 100% of the Gaza Strip, dismantle most of the settlements, and create a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. It was the deal of a liftime and Arafat blew it. His life has been built around a conflict that he did not want to end. And so, a series of horrific terror attacks continued. Friends admired his unwillingness change from terrorist mastermind to statesman. His legacy is never gaining independence for the Palestinian people, and bringing them decades of suffering that could have been avoided had he abandoned his revolutionary zeal for liberating Palestine and agreed to live in peace .
It is fitting they bring Arafat back to that dump they call Rahmalah? It's proper he should be stuck in the ground next to a burned out car and a crumbling building. May I suggest he be buried face down so he can see where he is going.
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