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:: Friday, November 19, 2004 ::

Bye bitch.

:: Scot 9:56 AM [+] :: ::
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Just die already

It is being reported that Yasser Arafat is on his deathbed in a France hospital (no kidding). 75 years old, the de facto leader of the Palestinian people and the front line general in the war against Israel is finally knocking on heaven's door. Unfortunately for him, that door will remain unanswered. He deserves no better than a long, excruciating, undignified death - and eternal damnation thereafter. He is destined for resentment in history's trashbin with the likes of Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, and Mao.

Arafat has led generations of Palestinians into a pointless and deluded war against Israel. He has transformed an entire culture into a genocidal death cult that seeks not land claims but the eradication of 'the evil Jew,' as well as other Westerners where convenient. Children are taught from an early age disgusting fabrications of their heritage, their religion, and the nature of their mortal enemy: the Jewish people and their state. Palestinians have grown up to believe that their existence and purpose amounts to nothing short of terrorizing and murdering Israelis at any opportunity.

He refined and nearly perfected the strategy of urban terrorism over the last few decades with the cultivation of the 'suicide bomber,' a brainwashed jihadist foot soldier strapped with explosives for detonation in public places. Adding to the carnage, if the victims are not blown apart, they are often impaled for life with various shards of metal, packed for maximum bloodletting. Purposely murdering thousands of defenseless civilians (usually women and children) with this appalling tactic, Arafat’s only restraint to killing in even greater numbers was his limited imagination.

His claims of enacting justice for a displaced people has served as clever subterfuge while he and his Arab counterparts attempt yet another holocaust. Fooling his minions into believing he was championing their cause when he was simply using them to fulfill his own military inclinations, Arafat acquired an astounding amount of personal wealth. That he is a billionaire while 'his people' starve to death seems only par for the course for today's successful tyrant. His place as leader of the Palestinians is even more curious when you consider he himself is not Palestinian (nor are many Palestinians for that matter), but an Egyptian who has freelanced all over the Middle East. He has made an absolute mockery of the axiom ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.’ Nevertheless, this political opportunism has rewarded him handsomely.

His legacy and wealth has also been another crippling blow for the scandalous and floundering United Nations. It wasn’t enough that his terrorist squads were using UN ambulances to deceive and penetrate Israeli checkpoints, the UN was constantly shoveling money and resources into a failing state and its hopeless war against Israel. Worse off than from the day it started, all this well-intentioned aid has contributed to one of the planet’s most depraved cultures. An irony that upon Arafat’s sickness, medical treatment from anywhere but home was summoned to tend to him before he finally left for Europe. Billions of dollars pumped into building a society and nary a doctor in the house.

Arafat no doubt can take solace in knowing that he has been quite successful on some fronts. He has duped many in the West into supporting his cause in what can only be described as an amazing diplomatic score. A pint-sized Hitler who has made civilian Jew killing and terrorizing his prime occupation, Arafat has convinced a large chunk of the West into believing Israel, with its restrained and surgical responses to Palestinian terrorism, is actually the bigger demon. The UN, the European Union, and a large share of Western campuses, media, and special interest groups all bear responsibility in being taken for suckers in Arafat’s propaganda war. Here is what BBC reporter Barbara Plett had to say about the father of Arab terrorism:


But where were the people, I wondered, the mass demonstrations of solidarity, the frantic expressions of concern?

Was this another story we Western journalists were getting wrong, bombarding the world with news of what we think is an historic event, while the locals get on with their lives?

Yet when the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound, I started to cry... without warning.

I remember well when the Israelis re-conquered the West Bank more than two years ago, how they drove their tanks and bulldozers into Mr Arafat's headquarters, trapping him in a few rooms, and throwing a military curtain around Ramallah.

I remember how Palestinians admired his refusal to flee under fire. They told me: "Our leader is sharing our pain, we are all under the same siege."

And so was I.

Despite his obvious failings - his use of corruption, his ambivalence towards violence, his autocratic way of ruling - no one could accuse him of cowardice.

Everyone says Yasser Arafat has made too many mistakes, that he has missed too many opportunities. He did and he has, but look also at what he has been up against.

Throughout his years of revolution, peace, and uprising, the Palestinian leader has been an enduring national symbol.


I feel for her. Lamenting the death of history's most despicable is never easy. Here's the same excerpt from a Herbert London piece I posted on my site last year:


The Big Lie is as prevalent in public life today as it was in Hitler’s Germany. So rash and irresponsible is European reporting about the Middle East that in a recent European Union poll Israel was regarded as the number one threat to world peace, ahead of Iran and North Korea.

This view so strains credulity, that it appears as if a kind of brainwashing that afflicted Germans during World War II has occurred in Europe today. Moreover, it confirms a deeply held suspicion among many Jews that anti-semitism has raised its ugly head in Europe yet again.

A European Union poll of 7500 found that 59 percent deemed Israel “a threat to peace in the world,” with figures rising to 60 percent in Britain, 65 in Germany, 69 in Austria and 74 in Holland.

Europe is playing with fire when it treats Israel as the villain. Yet it appears as if this is the direction adopted by media elites. Hence, it is hardly surprising that this European Gallup poll resulted in widespread anti-Israeli sentiment. Israel has been painted as the “bully” and many Europeans believe it.

One can only hope Europe comes to its senses before a 21st century Kristalnacht is ushered on to the world stage. We have been there before and the sight is too ugly to reconsider. “Never again” is taking on new poignancy with a European public apparently suffering from amnesia and the press corps fanning the flames of bigotry.


The progressives and illuminati of the West have treated Israel as a militant pariah state while overlooking Arafat's thriving terrorist machines. They have confused themselves with their moral relativism by viewing Israel, under siege from Arafat and other Middle Eastern despots, as the equal if not more malevolent side of the conflict. They have also adopted an updated version of anti-Semitism that further compounds their inane views: phony reports of Israeli massacres, complaints and fears of Israel’s access to nuclear weaponry, conspiracies of Jewish control over Washington.

A democratic nation that seeks to live in peace (to the point of actually offering land to appease its enemies) in a swampland of tin-pot dictators and theocratic wack-jobs, Israel, as well as intelligent Western morality, have taken serious blows from Arafat and his like-minded jihadi brothers. Arafat, like Che, Fidel, or Mumia, has become a paragon of rebellion and struggle among those that should know better. The nature and scope of Islamic terrorism has been in the spotlight for three years now, and the misguided support and sympathy for this monster and his ilk diplays a remarkable brand of idiocy.

Like Saddam, it seems Arafat chose to wither instead of partaking in the martyrdom he urged on others. Another jihadist loser in what is quickly becoming a rather large line. He will go down as one of history's most pathetic tyrants.


Update: Good Riddance.


More from:

Alan Dershowitz -

Arafat's legacy is one of bloodshed and war, yet tears are being shed over his peaceful passing, not only by Palestinians but by many Europeans as well. Had Arafat accepted the offer of statehood, his body could have been buried in the part of Jerusalem that would have been the capital of the Palestinian state instead of in the rubble of Ramallah.

The world made a terrible mistake by not treating Arafat as a criminal.

He should have been indicted for ordering the murder of American diplomats, Israeli athletes, and international travelers instead of being praised for his "courage." It takes no courage to kill the helpless and much courage to risk one's own life in pursuit of peace. It was such courage that Arafat lacked.

The Nobel Peace Prize was cheapened by being awarded to this hater of peace. The Vatican was tarnished by its frequent welcoming of a man who violated every teaching of the Church. The United Nations was trivialized by its lionization of this coward. And terrorism was encouraged by the rewards Arafat received for his murders.

Daniel Pipes -

It is hard to find words adequate to describe the malevolent 40-year long career of the world's longest reigning terrorist (it began in January 1965), a man who fouled his nest in Jordan, Lebanon, and then in 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.

The mise-en-scène 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. 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.

Tom Gross -

Arab leaders long ago stopped liking or respecting Yasser Arafat, or indeed believing a word he said. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak once referred to him, in the presence of Secretary of State Warren Christopher, as "a son of a dog." The Syrian defense minister called Arafat the "son of sixty thousand whores."

Yet until the very end, some prominent Western journalists never stopped heaping praise on him, or covering up for his countless crimes and misdeeds.

It didn't matter how many Jews, Arabs, and others died on his orders, or how many times he let down his own people, or stole from them. For these journalists, as well as for many European governments, he remained a worthy Nobel peace-prize winner and the "sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people.

To judge by some of the reporting as he lay on his deathbed in Paris — the hushed tone of the television newsreaders, the flattering touched-up portrait photos on the cover of the London Times — Arafat was a figure who deserved to be deeply revered, a kind of ailing pope.

There was little mention of the fact that he played a central role in the growth of modern terrorism, and continued to instigate it until the end. That his hijacking of airplanes inspired al Qaeda, that he ruined the modern Olympics by gunning down athletes, that he had a wheelchair-bound American pensioner shot and thrown into the Mediterranean, or that the PLO's massacre of 21 young Israeli children in their school pre-dated Beslan.

Andrew McCarthy -

While Arafat's mantel as the "Father of Palestine" is dubious given that he is singularly responsible for the failure of a Palestinian nation to emerge, his credentials as the "Father of Modern Terrorism" are solid. In the late 1950's, he co-founded Fatah, the "Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine." His métier, and thus Fatah's, was the sneak attack on soft Israeli targets, the better to maximize carnage and fear. The first efforts were ham-handed: failed attempts in 1965 to bomb the national water carrier and the railroad. But the organization soon hit its stride, successfully attacking villages and civilian infrastructure. By 1969, Arafat was the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the umbrella group he never ceased to dominate after merging Fatah into it a year earlier. The PLO had a single purpose: the destruction of Israel.

Actually, make that two purposes. The PLO was also a fabulously profitable criminal enterprise. Though Arafat purported to have made it big in the engineering business in Kuwait, British investigators, as Stephens reported, concluded after a searching probe that his wealth stemmed from sidelines his organization maintained in "extortion, payoffs, illegal arms-dealing, drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud" that yielded billions. Throughout his career, moreover, Arafat proved a master at culling funds — whether from levies on strapped Palestinian workers or gushing subsidies from starry-eyed European and American governments. From these, he skimmed millions and stashed them throughout the world — including in Israeli banks — keeping his wife on a lavish $100,000-per-month allowance in Paris while his people starved, and, of course, blamed Israel for their troubles.

Michael Weinstein -

We're concerned that the media will sanitize Yasser Arafat in death, as they so often did during his life. Right now, it's essential to clarify that this man was the innovator of modern terrorism, including the Islamic version that plagues the entire free world. Many aren't aware that Yasser Arafat innovated plane hijackings and suicide bombings. After 9/11, there were comparisons between bin Laden and Arafat. The comparisons were unfair... to bin Laden. Arafat was committing mass terror attacks while bin Laden was in diapers.

Moreover, we wanted to document that Arafat inculcated an entire generation of Palestinians to choose jihad over peaceful co-existence with Israel, America, and the west. Any hope of resolution of this conflict requires the rejection of Arafat's path, so we need to clearly document what that bloody path was.

And from the land of the schtoopid - Jacques, Kofi ,and Jimmy.

:: Scot 1:36 PM [+] :: ::
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