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Poll: French see Arafat as hero
Jerusalem Post ^ | Nov. 9, 2004

Posted on 11/08/2004 5:24:17 PM PST by Ahriman

The French regard Yasser Arafat as a hero rather than a terrorist, according to a new poll.

Asked to choose whether the Palestinian Authority chairman is a "hero of national resistance" or a terrorist, 43 percent chose the former and 27% the latter.

Ten percent said Arafat fit into both categories, while 9% said he was neither.

The poll, published Monday and commissioned jointly by the Lib ration newspaper and a national public radio station, also found that three times as many French people hold Prime Minister Ariel Sharon more responsible for Middle East violence than hold Arafat.

In addition, 34% said they had more sympathy for the Palestinians, as opposed to 13% for Israel.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: kerry; napalminthemorning; partyofthehindparts; religionofpeace; wot
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To: Ahriman

Being the most notorious Jew-killer of one's time must earn automatic hero status in France.


41 posted on 11/08/2004 6:13:45 PM PST by thoughtomator (The Era of Old Media is over! Long live the Pajamasphere!)
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To: Alouette
I am a Weird Al fanatic.

Okay...but damn you...I'm a Weird Al nut too...

I'm not sure I've got enough brain cells left to remember that though.

42 posted on 11/08/2004 6:14:27 PM PST by weenie (This is a war between the forces of good and evil. Humans are only pawns.)
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To: Alouette
Alouette: I just read your tread very slowly...three times.

I don't know if you are French or man or woman...not that it matters.

But I believe there is courage in French blood...

...this from an Englishman whose blood runs back Agincourt.

43 posted on 11/08/2004 6:30:00 PM PST by weenie (This is a war between the forces of good and evil. Humans are only pawns.)
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To: Ahriman

The French are harboring a terrorist, Arafat. Isn't France therefore our enemy? (Nothing new, just a "nuance".)


44 posted on 11/08/2004 6:32:14 PM PST by foofoopowder
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To: weenie

It's just the lyrics to a weird Al song. It's not suppose to make sense.


45 posted on 11/08/2004 6:35:23 PM PST by Alouette (Schadenfreude--it's better than prozac!)
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To: Ahriman

Well hey, kill as many Jews as Arafat has, and of course you will be popular in France.


46 posted on 11/08/2004 6:36:11 PM PST by swilhelm73 (I voted for Bush. You're welcome.)
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To: Alouette
But doesn't Weird Al always make contra sense.

Forgive me.

I dig deep for meaning

Did you mean this lightly or was there a deeper meaning?

If what you intended was light-hearted, that's OK...but it has no value in the deeper world.

47 posted on 11/08/2004 6:40:37 PM PST by weenie (This is a war between the forces of good and evil. Humans are only pawns.)
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To: Ahriman

From another board, a long time ago

Pali Man

© 2002 Mad Mullah Productions

It's nine o'clock on a Friday
The regular mosque crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sittin' next to me
Saying prayers, for his many dead kin

He says, "Son, can you tell me what's goin' on?
I think I'm lossin' mah mind...
It's sad and I'm beat and near dead on mah feet
And I fear, for all of mankind"

La la la, Ham du lay la
Enshalla Bukra, Ha Ha

Sing us a song, you're the Pali man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're not in the mood for a suicide
And you guys, you just want ta fight

Now Jamal at tha mosque is a friend of mine
He gets me C4 fer free
And he's a nice guy and quite willing ta die
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says, "Mahmoud, I believe this is killing me."
As the smile ran away from his face
"Well I'm sure that I could be a great martyr
If I could blow some Israelis ta space!"

Oh, La la la, Ham du lay la
Enshalla Bukra Ha Ha

Now Abdul is an Islamic novelist
Never raised enough goats fer a wife
And he's talkin' with Mo who's preparing to blow
For a chance at a heavenly life

And the Mullah is practicing politics
In a country where women get stoned
No, they can't get a drink for their hopelessness
They just go back to tha camp they call home

Oh, La la la, Ham du lay la
Enshalla Bukra Ha Ha

It's a pretty good crowd for a Friday
And the mullah gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's Allah they're all here ta follow
To forget about life for a while
And the sirens make it sound like a carnival
And the gunfire just keeps comin' near
But they just cling to their rug like a miracle drug
Till they cry, "Daamnn, tha Israelis are here!"

Oh, La la la, Ham du lay la
Enshalla Bukra Ha Ha


48 posted on 11/08/2004 6:42:34 PM PST by Pitiricus
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To: Alouette

"I enjoy the light but the truth is not on the surface...it is buried deep so that only those that seek it passionately can find it."


49 posted on 11/08/2004 6:54:23 PM PST by weenie (This is a war between the forces of good and evil. Humans are only pawns.)
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To: Ahriman

That's what happens when your country abandon's God in favor of the atheistic socialist EU collective.


50 posted on 11/08/2004 7:02:14 PM PST by TapTheSource
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To: Ahriman
"Poll: French see Arafat as hero"

And why shouldn't they. He's a stinking Arab terrorist with billions of dollars.

51 posted on 11/08/2004 7:03:08 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Ahriman
The next time one of these bloodthirsty monsters takes off for Paris, we should just shoot down the plane. And let the French moan about it.
52 posted on 11/08/2004 7:10:55 PM PST by JasonC
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To: JasonC

ANOTHER POLL .. please VOTE!!!

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/late.edition/

Should the Israeli government allow Yasser Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem?

Yes 12% 1279 votes

No 88% 9015 votes

Total: 10294 votes


53 posted on 11/08/2004 8:22:37 PM PST by abu afak (abuafak@yahoo.ie)
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To: Pitiricus
Most French outside the elites loath the Arabs (who they call ratons, rats)...

You reminded me of a nasty joke I heard in France in the 70s.

Il n'y a rien que je déteste plus que le racisme, sauf les Arabes. (There is nothing I hate more than racism, except for Arabs.)

54 posted on 11/08/2004 8:31:00 PM PST by exDemMom (Victory! Victory! Victory!)
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To: Ahriman
Ten percent said Arafat fit into both categories

A hero and a terrorist? These are some strange folks.

55 posted on 11/08/2004 8:32:46 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Ahriman


"Wow! I'm actually more popular than Jerry Lewis!!"
56 posted on 11/08/2004 8:34:31 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (America's shining sun is Conservatism)
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To: thoughtomator
Being the most notorious Jew-killer of one's time must earn automatic hero status in France.

Please! Sometimes the anti-French sentiment goes over the top here! During WWII, many French people risked their lives hiding Jewish children. I met a man a few years ago who was one such child. There are French movies about some of these acts of compassion and bravery. Despite their current inexplicable reaction towards taking needed action in Iraq, there are still plenty of good decent people in France.

57 posted on 11/08/2004 8:41:23 PM PST by exDemMom (Victory! Victory! Victory!)
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To: Ahriman
9% said he was neither.

The answer only a French philosopher could give.

Come to think of it, don't they have 9% unemployment over there in France, too?

58 posted on 11/08/2004 8:41:35 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: Ahriman

Probably one of those online polls. Non-scientific. Scientific polls show 99 per cent of the French hate the Jews and furthermore support Islamic countries in hopes that the citizens will stay in them and not move to France. ;')


59 posted on 11/09/2004 11:04:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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