Arafish Death Watch
Charles Johnson
Tue Nov 9, 2004 at 5:01 pm PST • Views: 157
They’re really making us wait for it, but Ha’aretz says Palestinian spokesliars will make the announcement Wednesday morning that the world’s oldest terrorist is now an ex-terrorist: PA plans Muqata burial for Arafat.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Sha’ath put an end Tuesday to nearly two weeks of speculation by declaring Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat’s life in a Paris hospital was “now in the hands of God and his doctors.”
A late-night report by Itim quoted senior Palestinian sources as saying that PLO Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas - the most senior Palestinian politician after Arafat - would announce in Ramallah Wednesday morning that Arafat had died.
According to the report, Arafat was already dead as of Tuesday night, but the Palestinian leadership would make the official announcement only after Abbas returned to Ramallah from Paris, via Amman, overnight.
Arafat’s bureau director, Tayeb Abdul Rahim, indicated in Ramallah Tuesday night that the Palestinian leadership had decided to turn the Muqata into a mausoleum for Arafat, making it his final resting place until circumstances allow him to be buried in Jerusalem.
It’s fitting that Arafat will rot in his bombed-out Muqata compound, where he spent the last years of his villainous existence in complete irrelevance. I have a feeling the PLO will be waiting a long time for those “circumstances.”
Frank says: