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Friday, November 12, 2004
Oh, lovely!!
Fox News is showing live footage of Yasser Arafat's coffin being delivered/interred in Ramallah. The best description of it is "controlled chaos"- a mob... machine gun fire into the air... people carried off on stretchers... a group of suicide bomber wannabe's dressed in black (complete with masks and headbands)... lots of flags waiving in the crowd ( the Palestininan flag, blag flags, and... wait for it... a French flag)....the crows took the coffin away from the guards and carried it around, jostling it so hard that his body fell out...
FoxNews had several people providing commentary during the "ceremony", and one said something that set E.D. Hill off... he said that the Palestinians see Arafat as their "George Washington", and he pointed out that Washington was considered a terrorist by the British Crown (as Arafat was considered by almost everyone until President Clinton gave him legitimacy in the 90s) and that Washington was trying to gain freedom for his people (the big difference is that Washington didn't want to massacre an entire people in order to achieve his goals, AND the American people already occupied the area in question, as opposed to Arafat, who would seek to displace a nation in order to create their own. You have a nation, people! It's called Jordan. Not our problem if your Arab brothers and sisters have figured out how maniacal you are, and they don't want you either!)
Let's refresh eveyone's memory... Yasser Arafat was a murderous thug who got attention to the Palestinian cause with the blood of innocents. He was a liar and a thief (where is all that aid money again?) He became insanely rich on the backs of the poor Palestinians, making empty promises in order to garner support. He turned his back on peace when given a chance to lay down arms. He was a terrorist, nothing more, nothing less...
I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but... they took away several people in ambulances, and they dumped Arafat's body at least once... I hope the Israelies searched those ambulances, just to make sure they didn't try to sneak his body out of the compound and into Jerusalem for burial there. Just being cautious here....
FoxNews had several people providing commentary during the "ceremony", and one said something that set E.D. Hill off... he said that the Palestinians see Arafat as their "George Washington", and he pointed out that Washington was considered a terrorist by the British Crown (as Arafat was considered by almost everyone until President Clinton gave him legitimacy in the 90s) and that Washington was trying to gain freedom for his people (the big difference is that Washington didn't want to massacre an entire people in order to achieve his goals, AND the American people already occupied the area in question, as opposed to Arafat, who would seek to displace a nation in order to create their own. You have a nation, people! It's called Jordan. Not our problem if your Arab brothers and sisters have figured out how maniacal you are, and they don't want you either!)
Let's refresh eveyone's memory... Yasser Arafat was a murderous thug who got attention to the Palestinian cause with the blood of innocents. He was a liar and a thief (where is all that aid money again?) He became insanely rich on the backs of the poor Palestinians, making empty promises in order to garner support. He turned his back on peace when given a chance to lay down arms. He was a terrorist, nothing more, nothing less...
I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but... they took away several people in ambulances, and they dumped Arafat's body at least once... I hope the Israelies searched those ambulances, just to make sure they didn't try to sneak his body out of the compound and into Jerusalem for burial there. Just being cautious here....
