[Keith]

I am assuming you felt the title was it's own barf alert...

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

A homegrown view from the US, not complaints aboult immigrants allowed.

[JoJo Gunn]

[Mears]

I think I'm going to lose my dinner!

Yasser Arafat,a man of peace!(sarcasm off)

[Mr. Mojo]

"We pray that Allah (God) will bless the Palestinian people to honor the goals .....of Yasser Arafat."

The main goal being the annihilation of Israel, of course.

[Bogey78O]

And had Arafa not existed 100 times the amount that went to his funeral would be happy in their own state.

[GreenHornet]

How can someone who had no character to begin with be the victim of "character assassination"?

[GSlob]

"people did not have the freedom to move and to be with their leader as he was buried."
In early barbarian age a dead chieftain would be accompanied in death by killing (or suicide?) of his retainers, wives, animals and so on. All these were normally interred in the same mound with their leader. Thus it was the gravest mistake not to allow the people the freedom to be with their leader as he was buried. Why, all the volunteers in attendance should have been MOAB'ed then and there, as a convenience and good will gesture.

[Mr. Mojo]

"In my work for the Honorable Louis Farrakhan as his International Representative....."

Ah, so Mr. "Allah" Akbar Mohammad is a Nation of Islam thug. Not exactly surprising.

[fastattacksailor]

AraFART is still dead, isn't he?

[Dallas59]

Ararat was a HIV loaded monster. Ruled by Islamic terror, the Palestinians will never be more than a birthing place of horror, terror, murder and pure hell.

[Bella_Bru]

the Palestinian economy.

The have no economy without Israel! I noticed this article fails to mention that Arabs lving in Israel have something they don't have in most Arab countries: real voting rights and the ability to run for office.

Do not let the talk of hidden bank accounts, money, corruption

Right. Can't have the truth about Arafat get out, now can we?

[Paladin2]

"In my work for the Honorable Louis Farrakhan as his International Representative"

Here's where the alarms are all fully activated. The pali's are into their own apartheid where they have pushed out almost all of the Cristian Pali's over the last ~50 years.

The pali's are totally against embracing and celebrating diversity.

Why aren't they allowed in become citizens in ANY Arab state?

Maybe the rest of the Arabs are on to something.

[Tarpaulin]

"10 times the number if the people from Gaza and other West Bank cities and towns had been permitted to travel to Ramallah."

When I watched the thing, I was thinking to myself: "What a perfect Target of Oppo.."

Ooops. I did it again. Here comes the Abuse button and a swift Mod retraction.

[Cornpone]

"What most of the world does not realize, and the press is not saying, is that there would have been 10 times the number if the people from Gaza and other West Bank cities and towns had been permitted to travel to Ramallah."
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I agree we missed a golden opportunity to herd the beasts and dispatch with all prejudice...

[Grendel9]

One extended question re Arafat "the Great."
WHO dreamed up the cute trick of strapping bombs onto the bodies of children, girls, deluded teen boys and grown men and women, paying their families huge sums of money to commit suicide, while killing as many non-Palestinians as possible? WHO convinced these fanatic "martyrs" they would know happiness and great pleasures in Paradise? WHO degraded the Koran, the sacred religion of his people to justify his own personal quest for power and glory? And WHO amassed a private fortune of $1.9 BILLION in a foreign bank account, said monies provided to him for dispersement among his people?
I see little that is GREAT about this criminal. Either WE in the Western World have been lied to, or HE lied to his people. Which is it?

[Publius6961]

For those who have an interest, they should read the article posted on the New York Review of Books, Volume 48, Number 13, August 9, 2001 entitled, “Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors” by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley. This article describes how the offer to the Palestinian cause was an insult to its people and Yasser Arafat.

Why send anyone on a wild goose chase? I have better things to do than read 1000 words of propaganda.
If what you say about the offer to the "palestinians" is true, that "...insult to its people and Yasser Arafat" can be summarized in a sentence or two. Why is it so hard?

[anniegetyourgun]

"Neither President Bush nor Tony Blair, in their recent meeting at the White House, would pay their condolences to the family of Yasser Arafat. They only said their condolences to the Palestinian people and emphasized that now we have a chance for a new beginning..."

Just as we Americans would have it. We aren't sorry you are offended Akbar.....

[MHGinTN]

Bwahahahahaha ... character assault for a terrorist homosexual who died of aids related disease. Character assasination for an assassin who wanted nothing less than annihilation of Jews in the Middle East. Character assassination for a freak who encouraged Palestinian Mothers to train their children to hate and blow themselves up to kill Jews. Bwahahahaha. Even Satan probably doesn't want the evil crude in Hell ... too much comeptition.

[Cindy]

Arafat assassinated his own character.