FAT RAT ARAFAT: A FILTHY TERRORIST BASTARD

ETHERZONE ^ | 12/6/01 | Norman Liebmann

[BlueLancer]

"The "staties", as they are sometimes called..."

When I was in the military, we called them "The Lace-Panty Brigade".

[meridia]

About twenty years ago, in a book about the history of Mossad, I'd read that Mossad has Arafat under special protection. This has, then, been a very long term policy which was initiated after profiling Arafat and comparing his psychological profile to any of his potential competition. Mossad deeded that out of the entire lot, that Arafat was the safest and/or the most sane.

Although this is supposed to be a satire piece of commentary, I'd just always presumed, upon the basis of what I'd read in that book, that American intelligence agencies had reached the same conclusion in their research as the Mossad profilers had. AND, therefore, it is NOT that Arrafat is beloved by State, much less by run of the mill average Americans, but rather that any other possible head of the Palestinians was deemed to be dangerously extremist, if not outright clinically pathological.

Therefore, on the basis of what I read almost 20 years ago, I do NOT find much humor, much less any factual analysis of the predicament that staties find themselves in, in regards to Arafat -- who seems to be the best possible leader in a field of candidates who seem to inordinately dangerous. Sorry I don't have the title of the book - it has, afterall, been almost decadeS since I read it.

[meridia]

Thanks for the background on the author. The one thing his article does depict is that many Americans believe the government to be too pro-Palestinian... something which I'm sure the Arabs would find very confusing, but is indeed the truth.

[veronica]

It's gallows humor. Much truth in gallows humor.

[meridia]

LOL - I'll have to brew a second POT of coffee. Actually my sense of humor has not been evident very much these past couple months... and frankly, there is a large part of me that wants the ANTHRAX CULPRIT apprehended NOW, today... get that jerk(s) off the street and behind bars. Since I have NO psykinesis skills, my desire for his/her apprehension indubitably shall remain unfulfilled, and therefore keep me in a heavy mood.

AND, too... I am admittedly inordinately suspicious of the press... even the political cartoons... everybody's got their point, and prolly not in accordance with my own.

AND, see, I have been VERY concerned not only about the American FBI/CIA/NSA... but also, I am distressed about the state of American Foreign Relations -- the ENTIRE FIELD... which I actually know nothing about... and frankly am scared to... as I intuitively predict that any study of this will provoke me to wretch, and I'm not ready to study up on the details... I'm simply certain there's PLENTY egregiously wrong, something that has distressed me a LOT these past two months.

Now... where's that coffee...

[monkeyshine]

Whoa nelly! Better spike that coffee.

Seriously, I am not sure if the Mossad figured Arafat to be the most sane, but rather the most malleable & gullible. As the saying goes "they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity..." I think of it slightly differently. The man is just not a good chess player. He falls into virtually every trap the Israelis lay for him.

[onyx]

Thanks for the ping. I really hope someone reads this to Arafat while he's sitting on the toilet doing his thing! Imagine, having to be the person assigned to pass him magazines while he sits atop his ONLY throne!

[monkeyshine]

Bump for Firehat and the late crowd. This article had me cracking up all day!

[hsszionist]

Funny article, how sad that it actually does describe Harvard and Brown graduates.

[Brian Allen]

According to Norman Liebmann.

And to at least every single one of the other 3.2 billion of the world's polpulation whose IQs falls in the "above-average" group!

[Brian Allen]

Thank you! Brilliant!

[wayne_shrugged]

I wish I could write as well, as compellingly, as humourously and as intelligently as the master Norman Liebman.

(Fire)Hats off to Norman Liebman!

The man tells it like it is...

[weikel]

What about the Hashemites only sane arab rulers nowadays they are safer than Arafat. Just give the west bank and Gaza to Jordan and build a big wall at the border.

[BlueLancer]

"Just give the west bank and Gaza to Jordan and build a big wall at the border."

Just give the west bank back to Jordan and Gaza back to Egypt and build a big wall at the border.

[weikel]

Egypt is better than Saudi Arabia but not as trustworthy as Jordan.

[meridia]

Finally, an article about out hallowed Ivory Tower Middle Eastern Studies departments and the Arabists they turn out....

click here