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Former US President Jimmy Carter calls Arafat a "powerful human symbol"
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Posted on 11/11/2004 8:56:09 AM PST by Saeder

Jimmy Strikes Again

MIAMI (AFP) - Former US President Jimmy Carter called Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) "a powerful human symbol and forceful advocate" who united Palestinians in their pursuit of a homeland.

"Yasser Arafat's death marks the end of an era and will no doubt be painfully felt by Palestinians throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in the world," Carter said.

"He was the father of the modern Palestinian nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Palestinians united behind him in their pursuit of a homeland," he said in a statement distributed by his Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center.

He said that while Arafat provided "indispensable leadership to a revolutionary movement" and played a key role in forging a peace agreement with Israel in 1993, he was excluded from negotiations in recent years.

"My hope is that an emerging Palestinian leadership can benefit from Arafat's experiences, be welcomed to the peace process by (Israeli) Prime Minister (Ariel) Sharon and (US) President (George W.) Bush, and be successful in helping to forge a Palestinian state living in harmony with their Israeli neighbors," Carter said.

Both Carter and Arafat are Nobel peace prize laureates.

Arafat, who died at a Paris hospital early Thursday, was to be buried at his West Bank headquarters after a military funeral ceremony in Cairo Friday.

Carter "will not be attending the funeral," said Jon Moor, a Carter Center spokesman.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: appeasor; arafat; badsymbolofgeorgia; barf; cartermalaise; dictatorbuttnuzzler; embarassment; jimmycarter; jimmyoupieceofshiite; nationaldisgrace; nitwitcarter; wastedpresidency; worthless; yassirsbuttboy
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To: Saeder
Hitler was a powerful human symbol.... very insightful of Jimmy... or actually - very obvious. Yes, Yassar was the embodiment of all that is Anti Semitic.
221 posted on 11/11/2004 1:39:36 PM PST by Porterville (IT'S GOOD TO BE REPUBLICAN- ASK ME HOW)
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To: Saeder
Years ago, I had some modicum of respect for Jimmy Carter. Even though he was the worst President in history, at least he seemed a good and moral man.

Boy, was I ever mistaken.

222 posted on 11/11/2004 1:41:11 PM PST by MEGoody (Way to go, America! 4 more years!)
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To: Saeder
You know if you change some of the words around:

MIAMI (AFP) - Former US President Jimmy Carter called (Adolf Hitler) "a powerful human symbol and forceful advocate" who united (Germans) in their pursuit of a homeland.

223 posted on 11/11/2004 1:41:29 PM PST by Porterville (IT'S GOOD TO BE REPUBLICAN- ASK ME HOW)
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To: ScholarWarrior

Gore needs to be on that list...and McAwful....and Jim McDermott....and Wexler....


224 posted on 11/11/2004 1:43:21 PM PST by Tribemike (Here is the text of the article....)
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To: Quilla
Loves Jew and American killers


225 posted on 11/11/2004 2:05:37 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Saeder
Former US President Jimmy Carter calls Arafat a "powerful human symbol"

That is because Jimmy Carter is not playing with a full deck.

226 posted on 11/11/2004 2:07:19 PM PST by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: Saeder

Maybe he meant to say "powerful human slimeball".


227 posted on 11/11/2004 2:07:46 PM PST by VRWCmember ("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Eccl. 10:2)
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To: Saeder

BREAKING: FREEPER CALLS CARTER A PUNGENT WALKING TURD


228 posted on 11/11/2004 2:15:21 PM PST by Cosmo (Got wood?)
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To: elephant
Where is the Barf alert?

It says Jimmy Carter right there in the headline. What more do you want?

229 posted on 11/11/2004 2:17:26 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (You can turn your head away from the Berg video and still hear Al Queda's calls to prayer.n)
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To: Saeder

Jimmy Carter is a disgrace and has his moral compass off balance...anyone who would sit next to Michael Moore at the Demo Convention....is off their rocker.......


230 posted on 11/11/2004 2:21:02 PM PST by IndianPrincessOK (Native American pleading for Truth!)
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To: MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Tamsey; Happy2BMe; Smartass; potlatch; onyx; ...

Arafat's uncle with another "symbol"

Haj Amin al-Husseini eventually died in exile in 1974. He never returned to Jerusalem after his 1937 departure. His place as leader of the radical, nationalist Palestinian Arabs was taken by his nephew Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini, better known as Yasser Arafat. In August 2002, Arafat gave an interview in which he referred to "our hero al-Husseini" as a symbol of Palestinian Arab resistance.

Carter's hero was Arafat whose hero (and uncle) was the mufti whose hero was Hitler.

Carter and Arafat were awarded the peace prize of the inventor of the dynamite adorning the Palikiddihajeen.

The more appropriate award would have been dynamite suppositories.

231 posted on 11/11/2004 2:45:41 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Saeder

That's beautiful. Karter never met a scumbag terrorist tinhorn dictator that he didn't like.


232 posted on 11/11/2004 2:47:34 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Gun-control is leftist mind-control.)
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To: PhilDragoo

Carter is an utter disgrace and shouldn't be allowed to go to the funeral.


233 posted on 11/11/2004 2:48:02 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
In article at beginning of thread:

Carter "will not be attending the funeral," said Jon Moor, a Carter Center spokesman.

234 posted on 11/11/2004 2:53:59 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Saeder
Jimmy Karter likes Arafat because they used to frequent the same gay bars.


"Take a few puffs of zis, zen we go get some boys, eh?"

235 posted on 11/11/2004 2:56:12 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Gun-control is leftist mind-control.)
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To: PhilDragoo

GOOD!


236 posted on 11/11/2004 2:56:40 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Saeder

A symbol of EVIL!!!


237 posted on 11/11/2004 3:03:10 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: PhilDragoo
Carter and Arafat were awarded the peace prize of the
inventor of the dynamite adorning the Palikiddihajeen.

The more appropriate award would have been dynamite
suppositories.

Hear! Hear!


238 posted on 11/11/2004 3:11:47 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: PhilDragoo
My opinion of Carter:

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239 posted on 11/11/2004 4:04:05 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Saeder; Grampa Dave
Carter "will not be attending the funeral," said Jon Moor, a Carter Center spokesman.

Well that is good news!

240 posted on 11/11/2004 4:05:07 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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