REPORTING FROM ISRAEL
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Posted on 11/22/2004 1:39:04 PM PST by Alouette
By a 17-14 vote, the board of the Yachad Party - formerly known as Meretz - resolved to send condolences to the "Palestinian nation" on the loss of its leader, Yasser Arafat.
The vote followed a stormy debate, Ynet reported. MK Ran Cohen, who lost to Yossi Beilin in his bid to head the party eight months ago, said, "Arafat was directly responsible for the terrorism. It's inconceivable that we should grant legitimacy for terrorism by sending condolences."
A member of the party leadership, Muhammed Awad, agreed: "I wouldn't have minded if Arafat had died 20 years ago. What good is it to send condolences? Just for Ahmed Tibi [it's good]. There's no need to shed tears for Arafat."
Knesset faction head Zahava Gal'on's position took the day, however. "This is a campaign to demonize the Palestinians. With all our criticism of Arafat, we must share in their sorrow; sending condolences is a human thing."
Arafat is said to be responsible for the deaths of thousands of Israeli citizens, untold numbers of Arabs and more than 100 U.S. citizens. Over the past 11 years since the Oslo Accords were signed, some 1,300 Israelis were murdered. The note stating the Yachad Party's condolences on the death of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat will be sent to Abu Mazen's office.
Meretz/Yahad should be outlawed--they are more dangerous to Israel than the Kach party ever was.
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What Would Jackie Mason Do?
I wonder if they considered sending condolences after Idi Amin or Pol Pot died...
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Carter needs to be held accountable for his insanity.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=33454
AFP: 11/11/2004
MIAMI, Nov 11 (AFP) - Former US President Jimmy Carter Thursday called Yasser Arafat "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.
I heard they already sent those..
I wonder if they considered sending condolences after Idi Amin or Pol Pot died...
I am at a loss for words regarding the sick leftist freak from Plains...well, at least I'm at a loss for words that won't get me a visit from those guys who wear suits and sunglasses, and talk into their lapels.
I must recheck my dictionary to see if the sick leftist freak's picture is next to the phrase "festering @sshole."
Oh, aye, begorrah, I hang my head in shame
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See profile if ye don't get what I be gettin at....
(Former Catholic....left in 1986...never again)
Oh, AAAAYE BEGGGORRRRAHHHH!!!!
(weeping)
To his everlasting "credit", Eamon De Valera, Prime Minister (later President) of Eire (Ireland), called personally on the German ambassador to Ireland to offer his condolences on the death of Hitler and his recognition of the new government headed by Grand Admiral Dönitz. There is no doubt that, had time permitted, the exchange of diplomatic representatives with neutral nations could have been achieved. Dönitz headed what he felt was, and should be, a new German government in every sense of the term.
I'm offline for a few days, but ping me with any good reading material that I might look at. I'm assistant to the Librarian here, and have access to a TON of great books...let me know if there is a good title I should request.) This IS actually a subject that interests me...
I've heard before that the Irish (wittingly in the case of some right baustards, unwittingly in the case of most (? most? some?) others, who were p'o'ed at the way the English treated them) sided with the Nazis/Germans.
Very interesting...
My soon-to-be-ex is a Kraut...go figure (WHY are they so ILL-TEMPERED??? Must be something in the bier....and they smell weird too...)
Anyways, all four of my grandparents were Irish by birth (two became Americans, one died on voyage, the other died and is buried somewhere in the auld sod...) so I am intrigued with the whole story....
I'm not too "up" on Ireland history, but 2 books by Tim Pat Coogan were of interest to me:
Michael Collins - the man who made Ireland
Eamon de Valera - the man who was Ireland
Coogan's father worked with Collins.
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