Posted on 11/11/2004 11:33:21 AM PST by quidnunc
It is considered bad form to speak ill of the dead, but I will make an exception for Yasser Arafat, the pathetic embodiment of all that went wrong in the Third World after the demise of the European empires.
All too many rulers of "liberated" nations in the second half of the 20th century — the likes of Mao Tse-tung (China), Sukarno (Indonesia), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Moammar Kadafi (Libya) and Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) — proved to be devotees of the Louis XIV school of political philosophy: L'etat, c'est moi. Their rapaciousness knew no bounds. Neither did their cruelty.
Yet even as these rulers were torturing their own people, they were lionized in the salons of the West. European and American intellectuals, motivated by a combination of guilt for their countries' past conduct, vicarious zest for revolutionary adventure and condescension toward Africans and Asians who were thought incapable of conforming to Western standards, were willing to excuse any crime committed in the name of "national liberation."
Arafat benefited from this deference ever since taking over the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1969. He and his cronies pocketed billions of dollars and kept their grip on power through the cruel application of violence against various enemies and "collaborators." In return, Arafat reaped worldwide adulation and a Nobel Peace Prize.
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(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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I can't believe this was in the LA Times!
I wonder how Hitlery feels about Arafat's death ?
Rat presidents like Carter, Clintoon, and the wanna be Kerry and the left wing MSM here and around the world enabled the murderer Arafat to be viewed as a hero.
The anti Israel La Slimes was one of the worse of the MSM.
Are there any further questions as to the French and their attitude towards terrorism? I didn't think so.
The Nobel committee did their part in "legitimizing" the (now good) terrorist, too.
Rush did a good job of covering the slimey Nobel Prize lefties and their choice of Arafat.
bump for later...
bump!
That's funny!!
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