The British love anybody who kills Jews.

Oh goody

Another chance to trash the most despicable and ruthless creature to ever breath!

flush away.

This 'British' hated arafat- LOVED the funeral

Dead fish float like corks...Flush twice and keep the plunger handy.

he was powerfully influenced by Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Islamic mufti of Jerusalem who was closely aligned with Hitler and schemed from Berlin to import the Fuhrer's genocidal program to Palestine.

'nuff said.

"The son of sixty thousand whores"? Whew!!! THAT is gonna be tough to beat! LOL

I am not going to read them and no one can make me.

#5 Ringo the Gringo

I'm all for cremation (As long as the prevailing winds are blowing toward "Palestine"--Egypt and Jordan). After all, I'm afraid that if simply buried he would return again and again like something on a creepy Sci Fi monster movie.

You know the one where the evil, ugly monster in a keffiyah keeps climbing out of the grave and killing school kids? That one.

After watching the coffin SWARM, I've seen enough of Arafat forever.

I will studiously ignore all further stories about the fish.

Stories about the Palestinian coffin swarmers, however, I will continue to follow.

People such as these should not be allowed to possess sharp impliments of any kind or anything that goes "boom!" They should be returned to milking goats for the next several centuries while they grow the fuck up.

Okay. I'll read them. Lay off, already.

Arafat may be dead, but nothing else has changed.

Not sure if folks are aware the MEMRI has Islamic TV clips with translation on their website:

MEMRI TV

Interesting commmentaries on Arafat, etc.

The McCarthy piece is fantastic. He's especially down on Clinton's desperate desire to force the issue when Clinton knew full well that Arafat was a lying sack of murderous shit who wasn't go to change his ways.

Thingfish's apotheosis in the American media is a mystery to me. What's with all this memorializing and breaking news business? Dhimmis to the last.

Horse shit.

You have to be a complete dumbass to swarm a helicopter. But I digress...

I have heard some very reliable reports that Bill Clinton voted for George Bush. Hillary did not vote.

#12

elitist shits-feh.

"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times."

George W. Bush, Tokyo, February 20, 2002.

[Link: homepage.mac.com...]

OK, Who is Yassar making out with in this film?

The Syrian defense minister called Arafat the "son of sixty thousand whores."

I hate the Arabs because I feel inferior in my ability to insult people. I and my civilization are humiliated. I curse my mother for giving me birth.

#18 Lawrence Schmerel

Linky please!

#20, Lawrence Schmerel: [2002 Bush Quote]

Assuming that's an accurate quote, I gather that you believe Bush must be stupid, is that right?

If so, I can only advise you of one thing. Give it up. YOU LOST! How smart does that make you?

WSJ's OP Ed. is right on, as always.

Of course, "the Palestinian people" would have had a state in 1948 had the Arabs not immediately declared war on the nascent state of Israel. Arafat, who founded the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1964, was instrumental in developing a Palestinian political culture centered on rejectionism, anti-Semitism and terrorism.

Read the whole thing by subscribing to the WSJ's daily email. Just go to their website.

#18-

I'd believe it. Not that I think much of Clinton, but I don't see much as being beyond him.

OK, opening a drinking thread.

*cracking open a bottle of Our Dog Blue, a local Virginia wine.

I drink to the impossible state of Palestine. may it alaways be impossible, impassable, and most of all, improbable.

*drink*

AAArrrghhh!! Flashing red light for hornet. Information overload on Arafat. Warning, alarm. Print these articles and read them at work (12 hr. shift) return, go immediately to LGF and post 2 cents worth then.

Another detailed account of what is to be in the wake of Arafat's demise:

Arafat's Rival Heirs

The funeral in Egypt is being replayed on C-SPAN right now. The cameras try to make it look big but it's really quite small.
Next -- 45 minutes of helicopter swarm!

Julia the Horrible

I have several bottles of that exact wine in my fridge right now. I love Meadows of Dan.

Julia the Horrible:

Great toast!

#27 Julia the Horrible

OK, opening a drinking thread.

Cheers to you for that!
Where is SW Virginia are you?! I know the area well.
I'm in Fairfax. It went blue... -:(

The world is truly upside down. Christians are called gun-loving and intolerant. The Muslims are called victims, with a faith that is compassionate and merciful.
The Pali's sure have the gun-loving thing over us Christians anyday! They fire those guns for every occasion. Births, weddings, funerals, oh, and jihad!

Bush=Hitler and Arafat=Nobel Peace Prize

The blue sates buy the drivel of the Islamic Fascists, and the red sates are called dumb.

A traitor like Kerry meets with terrorists and lies in hearings to Congress but is called a hero, and the heros that fought for more than four months or actually received more than a band-aid for their wounds are called criminals and liars.

Watching the Pali's receive the dead fish today while listening to "professionals" use words like "orderly", "calm," and "dignified was like watching a rape and hear it described as an intimate showing of love and affection!

I am so confused!

*looks down blouse (jammie shirt)*

Whew! I think I am still a woman though!

sorta OT: Am I wrong to be outraged by this???

CBS Axes Producer for Arafat Cut-In

CBS News has axed a news producer who cut into prime-time programming Wednesday night to report the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

The staffer, a female senior producer for CBS’s overnight newscast Up to the Minute, broke in to CSI: N.Y. shortly before 11 p.m. with the report, outraging viewers who missed the end of the crime drama.

CBS apologized for the interruption Thursday, saying an “overly aggressive” staffer “jumped the gun on a report that should have been offered to local stations for their late news.”

As for the producer’s dismissal, a CBS spokesperson said Friday, “We do not comment on personnel issues.” CBS planned to repeat the CSI: N.Y. episode Friday night to placate viewers.

This producer gets the axe, BUT, the producer who produces fake documents to try to nail the President is somehow unscated

/shakes head

#35 jjmckay1216 11/12/2004 06:14PM PST
Save your outrage, at least CBS collectively doesn't see the fish's death as important enough to cut into CSI and I think that's healthy.

PBS Washington Week has Thomas Friedman positioned as the moderate/conservative voice of reason on Israel and Palestine, talk about a heavy thumb on the right side of the scale. Friedman presenting splitting of Jerusalem as a forgone conclusion. What a whitewash.

Did I mention how disgusted I am that W is repaying Blair's participation in Iraq on the backs of the Israelis. Next step: any election at all in the P.A. will be "proof" of compliance with the roadmap to hell.

The coffin swarm was a hoot. Two steps forward with the coffin, four steps back. Gesticulate madly. Fire gun in air.

My Gd these people can't even stand back to let their beloved leader's coffin through. Such a level of judgement and impulse control -- clearly these are a people who merit their own state.

/sarc. duh.

Don't cry for me...Pale-stin-ia!!!
The truth is I never helped you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my billions
You kept on dying...
Have I said too much? There's nothing
more I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do is look at me to
know that every word is true...

/oy gevalt...frickin' Evita ovah heah...Shaddap!!!

#38 rosh

For me, the funniest part of the coffin swarm was that it was sooo easy to predict and yet the headlines the day before were "strictly controlled." Google the words

strictly controlled arafat

It was the meme of the day. And like most memes, the polar opposite of what was the truth.

I just realized something. Arafat WAS a Freedom Fighter!

After all, he fought against freedom all his life!

Here's the Palestinians' own (former) champion, the recently deceased US-based intellectual Edward Said, describing the results of Arafat's reign of terror in June 2002:

"If there is one thing along with Arafat's ruinous regime that has done us more harm as a cause it is this calamitous policy of killing Israeli civilians, which further proves to the world that we are indeed terrorists and an immoral movement. For what gain no one has been able to say."

[Link: weekly.ahram.org.eg...]"Palestinian Elections Now"

Personally, I think this cover says it all.

I've heard that their Euro-pion buddies sent rather high level officials, and they were not allowed to attend. So much for being a friend.

I suppose those Euro-pions are going to expect the U.S. to pay for their travel expenses due to some perverse belief that it's our fault those [bigoted word]s went on a rage.

I often wondered how the hatred of Jews could ever have culminated in the atrocities committed against them in WWII, it seemed almost inconcievable to me. Now it's not hard to understand, because it's happening again right in front of my eyes. These despicable adoration of a mass murderer and a criminal thief is more about showing hatred to Jews than it is support of Arabs.

This time its the intellectuals of the left that are responsible.

Flush him!

Arafat may be dead, but nothing else has changed.

True enough. I love the fact that his Bush-Pig, so called
"wife" was negotiating with the rest of the thugocracy/kleptocracy about who would control the millions and or billions of dollars left by Himself.

MIllions or Billions of Dollars stolen from the so-called Palestinians, all provided by the eurabian tax payers.

I hope Suha gets it all. Every $ in her purse means one less $ in the hands of the murdering thugs to build bombs and buy bullets.

Incidentally, I saw the bitch had no burka on at her hubby's funeral. Too bad the ROPMA did not stone her to death for being such a wanton slut.

This is really shallow, but I guess it's why Islamists require women wear burkas.

Did you get a look at Suha, here in the red states we'd be yellin' Suuueee

Rinnngg! Rinnngg!
"Hello, heaven."
"Huh, uh hello. Is this God?"
"No sir, this is the receptionist."
"Uh, can I speak to God?"
"Do you have an appointment?"
"Uh, no. Uh, could you just put Him on the phone? I need to talk to Him."
"God doesn't do phone interviews. You must see Him in person."
"I am a dignitary. Can I please just speak with Him briefly?"
"That would not be possible, sir."
"But, I won the Nobel Peace Prize."
"I'm sure you did, sir, but we don't keep records of awards here, they're kept on Earth. Would you like to schedule a visitation with the Almighty?"
"Yes, please, I would like to..."
"What is your name, sir?"
"Arafat."
"Spell that please?"
"A-R-A-F-A-T"
"First name?"
"Yassir."
"I am not a man, please don't call me sir! What is your first name?"
"No,no. You don't understand, my name is Yassir."
"Oh, yes. I've heard of you."
"Yes, thank you. I really need to speak with God."
"Date of birth?"
"August 24th, 1929."
"Let me just check the computer, please hold... Date of death November 10th, 2004, leader of the PLO, conducted terrorist activities, (mumble...) Oh, I'm sorry sir, you have been red-flagged."
"Wa... what do you mean?!"
"Well, sir, I am afraid you are not eligible at this time."
"Elig... What do you mean I am not eligible?!"
"Eligibility is dependent upon many factors. I can send you a free pamphlet regarding eligibility if you would like. It's a very good read, most people consider it the Bible on eligibility."
"Bu... but I saved a race of people! I single-handedly established a homeland for millions of Palestinians!"
"Well, sir it is not my place to judge. Would you like to take up your claim with the Under-secretary?"
"Under-secretary? Who is that?"
"You know, the head of the other place - down below."
"No! No! I want to speak to God."
"Well, sir, as I have explained, you are not eligible at this time, however; there is another process that you may apply for."
"Yes, yes, and what is that process?"
"You may speak to other representatives who can lobby on your behalf."
"Really?? How does that work?"
"I will put you in touch with a representative of your choice."
"OK, who should I contact?"
"Let's see, who's available... oh, here... Erma Trighley or Jamie Feldman."
"I've never heard of them. Who are these people?"
"Oh. Let me look up their credentials. OK, here we are. Ms. Trighley was a passenger on the commercial aircraft that you had ordered blown up in flight. She had a husband and four children who were quite young when she was killed."
"Oh, no! I don't want her! How about the other guy?"
"OK. Hmm... Mr. Feldman was a fifth grade student at a grammar school in Israel when his bus was fire-bombed by...it says here, one of your followers. Is that right?"
"I... I don't know. Maybe your records are incorrect."
"Sir, this is heaven. I can assure you these records are quite accurate"
"Oh God! Is there anyone else I can speak to?!"
"Oh, certainly, sir. There are several thousand individuals to whom you may appeal. Let's see... most of them are Israelis, but there are Americans, Europeans and even a surprising number of Palestinians."
"Oh! Let me contact a Palestinian, please!"
"OK, how about... Prisa Uhkbad?"
"Sure, if she is a Palestinian."
"Yes, she is a middle-aged woman who pleaded with you to stop the cycle of violence during a confrontational street demonstration. Her son was subsequently severely injured when he was hit in the head with a brick and later pronounced brain-dead at the hospital. She just joined us recently and is free tomorrow. Would you like to meet with her?"
"I... I... I don't... is there any other possibility?!"
"Yes Mr Arafat, there is one other alternative."
"Oh, thank you! What should I do?"
"You can repent for your grievous sins against humanity."

Eric Margolis of the Toronto Sun writes the most disgusting "Arafat the Savior" piece I have seen yet:

Yasser Arafat, who died yesterday, tirelessly waged a four-decade struggle to right the deep injustices his people had suffered. In the process, he met and overcame more daunting obstacles than any other modern leader.

Virtually all men's hands were against the 5.5 million Palestinian refugees whose ancestral lands had been seized by Israel in the 1948 and 1967 wars. The Palestinian state called for by the UN in 1949 was secretly divided up by Israel, Jordan and Egypt.

...In spite of his tough talk, Arafat sought peace with Israel on numerous occasions based on an Arab state holding 21% of original Palestine. But each time, the Israelis moved the goalposts away and stalled, intent on buying time to finish colonizing the West Bank and Golan.

Actually, this article which appeared in the Jerusalem Post captured the Israeli leaderships sentiments. The portion from Barak was most revealing.

Suha Arafat needs our help.
--
Indy Media Watch

#34...

You are so very correct.

The vast majority of the world has been so brainwashed
by the media and "educational" instiitutions (read social engineers) that they have no idea of right or wrong or which way is up. People need to stop believing everything delivered by these propagandists and start using COMMON SENSE on their own accord. Or is that "uncommon sense" in this day and age.

And, as for Arafat, he should have been flushed at birth.

#25 Julia the Horrible (I'm sure you're not)

Actually, the Palestinian Arabs had an even better chance ten years earlier to get their state. In 1938, following years of anti-Jewish violence in what was then British Mandate Palestine, they were offered all of the country save a tiny postage-stamp sized reservation in the Tel Aviv-Haifa area for the Jews. They refused. (The Jews accepted; with the Holocaust imminent, they would have accepted Devil's Island, anywhere, as a place of refuge.)

In 1947, the Palestinian Arabs were offered half of the country by the UN. They refused, and started a war which by the way they lost. The Jews accepted, and finished the war, which by the way they won.

Four years ago, the Palestinian Arabs were offered a quarter of the country by the Israelis. They refused, and started an intifada, which by the way they lost.

You may perhaps see a pattern here. Didn't Abba Eban once say something about the Palestinians never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

here is a very disgusting article, from where else, the Guardian. You might want to politely email this lady and explain why we celebrate the death of the fish.

she is totally clueless, but that is to be expected, especially since she is the main correspondent from Israel for the Guardian.

Sorry forgot the link

guardian article

When I find myself agreeing with anything a liberal Harvard law professor writes, I suspect mind control. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but Alan Dershowitz is actually making sense.

another reason why Europe is better off with Bush

Notice the buggy.

In any way, the euthanasia drama over Arafats death has left a permanent imprint on Europe, the Islamic states now see us through the prism of the AraFat Lady. Miss Fish has created a media uproar on her husband's ferry to Hades and milked some dozen million euros out of the PA from exploiting the privileges of her relative status in the European healthcare system. In the eyes of the Islamic ulema, Europe now is an ugly old bitch that they don't even want to have at the funeral.

Okay I missed that man's funeral and have a quick question for those who actually watched it (bless your hearts!). Who from America was actually there? The Assistant Secretary of State? Anyone else?

Oh and did that man receive the same treatment the Ayatollah got at his funeral? (please say yes, please say yes)

#57 Jab

Don't worry about your sanity. With respect to everything else you would not agree with Professor Dershowitz. I was at a talk he give last week and while he passionately supports the State of Israel, he refuses to believe that it is the Left in this country that are the anti-Semites. He recognizes that almost no professor is willing to stand up for Israel and the Jews, but will all his brilliance he is incapable of connecting the dots to see that it is their Leftist ideology that causes them to be anti-Semitic. He still believes that it is the evil right wing Republicans lead by Pat Buchanan that are responsible for anti-Semitism here.

All amazing articles. I particularly liked The Father of Modern Terrorism, by Andrew C. McCarthy. If you follow the link from this bit ...

As recalled in the riveting account of "Black September" by hostage David Raab, all the hijacked flights were bound from Europe to the United States. One, a Pan-Am 747, was taken to Cairo, where it was blown up on the tarmac just after the passengers were allowed to exit. A second, targeting an El-Al aircraft, was foiled in flight by Israeli sky marshals. But a TWA 707 and a SwissAir DC-8, with a combined 310 passengers and crew, were hijacked to a Jordanian dessert. The terrorists segregated Israeli, American, Swiss, and West German passengers for captivity — releasing the others — and threatened to kill the hostages and blow up the planes unless jailed militants were released. Under international pressure, King Hussein resolved to reassert control. War broke out on September 13. By the time it ended two weeks later, the hostages had been released, but over 2,000 people had been killed as Arafat and his terrorist band were driven out of the country.

Remembrance of Terror Past
By DAVID RAAB

After 34 years, I was standing once again at the house in Amman where, as a 17-year-old, I was held hostage by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

On Sunday, Sept. 6, 1970, the P.F.L.P. tried the first quadruple hijacking in history, commandeering planes headed to the United States from Europe. One carrier, a Pan Am 747, was diverted to Cairo and blown up in protest only moments after passengers cleared its wings. Another attempt was foiled when the pilot threw his El Al airliner into a nose dive, giving sky marshals the chance to subdue the hijackers. The two other planes -- a T.W.A. 707 and a Swissair DC-8 -- with 310 crew members and passengers landed in the desert northeast of Amman. My mother, my four siblings and I were aboard the T.W.A. plane, heading home to Trenton after a summer in Israel.

The next day, the P.F.L.P. moved about 125 passengers to Amman, but kept American, Israeli, Swiss and West German citizens on the planes. The hijackers sought freedom for their jailed compatriots and threatened to blow up the planes with us in them. For a week, we sat in the desert, in our metal containers, enduring 120-degree days, 40-degree nights and no functioning toilets. Our captors provided minimal water and food. We were put on display for the bandoleered, machine-gun-toting guerrillas who traipsed through the plane. Fear was ever-present, but there was no panic: a P.F.L.P. doctor doled out tranquilizers. Having netted few Israelis, the P.F.L.P. interrogated Jewish passengers, including my mother, in order to find more.

At 2:30 a.m. on Friday, as I slept soundly for the first time, I was tapped by the co-pilot, who said, ''They want you up front for questioning.'' As I got up, I began shaking uncontrollably. My mother, sitting behind me, heard the rustling and quickly followed. She was warned at gunpoint to sit down.

There's more. Apparently he's writing a book about the events of Black September.

The real Richard (#60)

He still believes that it is the evil right wing Republicans lead by Pat Buchanan that are responsible for anti-Semitism here.

The truth is that it's coming at us from every direction these days.

His Fatal Flaw; No Vision and No Courage

I never could bring myself to tell my Aunt Sadie, but I once shared chicken soup with Yasser Arafat. It was at the end of a long interview, one of several with him over the years. "Come have lunch," he said in a tone decidedly more congenial than our conversation had been.

On the table was a tureen of broth with chunks of boiled chicken floating in it. "My favorite," he said. "I have it every day." I made a joke, of course, about chicken soup being Jewish penicillin. He didn't get it.

And that was the problem: Arafat never got it.

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What was Arafat's fatal flaw? Why did a man who had both the opportunity and the intellect to deliver his people a state of their own fail to do so?

He lacked the realism, the vision and, most important, the courage to make the shift from terrorist to statesman. He spoke (in Arabic) not of peace with Israel but of a truce, something he could always break. And he refused to tell his people that Israel never would commit demographic suicide by letting millions of Palestinians return.

He also feared that if he ever told his people to accept a state that was less than what he had promised, he would lose stature, popularity and the place he believed he deserved in Arab history.

False pride is often a fatal error in the Arab world - a character flaw born not of heroism but of cowardice.

#62 Zulubaby

The point I was making was not that Pat Buchanan wasn't an anti-Semite (he has been one his whole life) but that he was no longer a member in good standing of the Republican Party. The Republicans have purged their party of open anti-Semites while the Democrats have welcomed them with open arms.

The real Richard, I'm not sure that they've all been "purged" but you definitely have a point there, especially about being openly anti-Semitic. Buchanan is an anti-Semite, regardless of his politics. Sometimes it's not a left or right, democrat or republican issue.

HOORAY, ARAFAGGOT IS DEAD!

Was taking a break from yard clean-up and flipping channels to catch the latest new, caught a portion of CNN's memorial piece on Arafat-the-peace-maker.
My mouth fell open.
I knew CNN was LL, but I did not know it was anti-Israel, and it has to be to have aired such a bio praising piece of bs.
I had to turn it off, because 'eggplant's nuke postings
already had my bloodpressure raised.