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Arafat: Going, Going ... Gone?

Oct 27, 2004 5:35 PM
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update crasch reminds me of an old joke:

Arafat goes to a fortune teller and asks: "On what day will I die?"

The fortune teller said: "It will be on a Jewish Holiday."

Arafat said: "Which one? Rosh Ha'Shonah? Yom Kippur?"

The fortune teller said: "I do not know, but what ever day you die, that day will be a Jewish Holiday."

Yasser Arafat is personally responsible for doing an utterly phenomenal phenomenal amount of harm to his own people and others.

The world will be a better place when this evil man is gone, and I'm pleased to see that we're getting close to a world without "Terrorfat".

Sure, there is the high risk of violent power struggles following his death, but I find it nearly impossible to picture a world where we'd wish he was still alive.

It is a shame that he will have never been held accountable for the possibly irreparable damage that he's done to two nations: the Palestinians and the Israelis.


Comments: Arafat: Going, Going ... Gone?

So hopefully we'll get a reasonable person in there next. But then what? Another Arafat? You just never know...

Posted by: Julia on October 27, 2004 9:54 PM | permalink

The man's way past his due date, like stinky overdue milk.

But do you think a world without "Terrorfat" will be better or pretty much the same? (Or, perish the thought, worse?) All those scumbags in Hamas and Al Aqsa will still get plenty of funding from the Saudi royal family.

Posted by: S on October 27, 2004 10:44 PM | permalink

The combination of Arafat's air of undeserved legitimacy (Nobel peace prize, UN invitee, decades at the helm, "elected" leader) and his unwillingness to reach any agreement serves as a bottleneck for any hope at peace.

With him gone, at the very least, it opens up the possibility of progress, as opposed to the complete standstill we're in now.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on October 28, 2004 7:51 AM | permalink

He's also ugly enough to be a porn star.

Nobel Peace Prize... I wonder what he did with the $1,000,000 that goes with the award. Surely not guns and other anti-peace items.

Posted by: O'dell on October 28, 2004 6:24 PM | permalink

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