Posted on 10/28/2004 12:50:54 PM PDT by SmithL
"It will never happen," diplomatic officials said Thursday regarding the possibility that ailing Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat will ask to be buried on the Temple Mount.
"We are not dealing with this issue right now but one thing is for sure; Arafat will not be buried on the Temple Mount," the officials said.
Wakf officials, who oversee the holy Muslim sites on the Temple Mount, rejected Israel's right to decide on the matter.
"Nobody will tell us where to bury him and the final decision lies in the hands of the Palestinian people," Wakf director Adnan Husseini told The Jerusalem Post Thursday. "We will make the decision at the appropriate date and nobody has the right to interfere except for the Islamic Trust and the 230,000 Arabs who live in East Jerusalem."
Asked if he had received any official requests by Palestinian officials regarding Arafat's desire to be buried on the mount, Husseini said, "We do not look forward to such an event and anyhow Arafat is not very sick and only has flu and we hope he will get better."
Israeli officials also rejected reports that they had received an official request from the Palestinian Authority asking for permission to bury Arafat on the Temple Mount.
When the time comes, however, the final decision may not be up to the Israelis or the Wakf. In July, an official defense establishment report was leaked to the press detailing Israeli reactions to Arafat's death. One of the issues dealt with in the report was his desire to be buried on the Temple Mount. The report recommended burying the Palestinian leader in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis overlooking the disputed holy site.
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Huh. Read the title and thought he was already gone...
Even in death he's a nuisance. Throw him into the mediterranean.
I think they should agree to burry him on the mount if they can do it NOW.
Nope, let the hogs eat him.
How about a burial in France?
But, I think they will allow him to be burned (alive) on the Mount.
Where is the municipal landfill located? Or is the garbage exported there?
GOOD! Send him to India for a proper ceremony -- a funeral pyre -- send him up in smoke!
Cremate the murdering terrorist and scatter his dust over Paris to create more pollution.
He's an Egyptian, bury him in Egypt.
Mrs. Premise : Hullo, Mrs. Conclusion.
Conclusion: Busy Day?
Premise: Busy? I just spent four hours burying the cat.
Conclusion: *Four hours* to bury a cat?
Premise: Yes - it wouldn't keep still.
Conclusion: Oh - it wasn't dead, then?
Premise: No, no - but it's not at all well, so as we were going to be on the safe side.
Conclusion: Quite right - you don't want to come back from Sorrento to a dead cat. It'd be so anticlimactic. Yes, kill it now, that's what I say. We're going to have to have our budgie put down.
Premise: Really - is it very old?
Conclusion: No, we just don't like it. We're going to take it to the vet tomorrow.
Premise: Tell me, how do they put budgies down, then?
Conclusion: Well, it's funny you should ask that, because I've just been reading a great big book about how to put your budgie down, and apparently you can either hit them with the book, or you can shoot them just there, just above the beak.
Premise: Just there? Well, well, well. 'Course, Mrs Essence flushed hers down the loo.
Conclusion: No, you shouldn't do that - no, that's dangerous. They *breed* in the *sewers*!
I agree...IslamoCommunist Egyptian almost dead punk murderers don't have rights. Sorry, that's the deal. Take it or die...
Man, his corpse is going to be around a LONG time. Dragged back and forth to the Mount. This could get ugly....er...
didnt this same burial issue come up when he was sick a few years ago?
Arafat may not be *the* abomination, but he's surely *an* abomination.
I don't care where Arafat is buried, but I hope his death is slow and painful.
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