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Arafat’s Undeserved Honor: The West’s Shame November 12, 2004 by Elan Journo What made Yasir Arafat’s final days appalling was not the farcical prevarications about whether he were dead or alive, nor the soap-opera quarrel between his wife and his political cronies; it was that so evil a man commanded so much respect. Since his airlift to a Paris hospital, as the welcomed guest of the French government and with throngs of journalists on the scene, Arafat’s death has been presented as the heartbreaking end of a noble man. Reacting to a premature report of Arafat’s death, President Bush wished...

{snip}... This monster has gallons and gallons of blood on his hands and I am relieved at his demise. The wisest man in the world, King Solomon, wrote in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 1-8, "Everything has its season, and there is a time for everything under the heaven: A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot the planted... a time to love and a time to hate." This my friends, is a time to hate. We should hate Arafat for all the suffering he has brought upon the Jewish People. We should...

JPost.com Nov. 10, 2004 19:53 Updated Nov. 11, 2004 13:04 World leaders expected at Arafat funeral By NINA GILBERT Israel has agreed that the Palestinians will handle security for Yasser Arafat's funeral Ramallah, with the IDF coordinating security outside the Palestinian area together with the police. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has officially announced a Friday burial in Ramallah, despite conflicting reports from the PA. They are also reported to have said that they have received no requests for foreign VIP's to attend the actual burial in Ramallah. The following dignitaries are expected at Yasser Arafat's funeral in Cairo on Friday,...

Israel is putting together a package of humanitarian gestures for emerging new leaders in the Palestinian Authority, although these stop short of allowing Yasser Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem, government sources said Saturday. Officially, neither the Prime Minister's Office nor the Foreign Ministry will discuss the gestures, or anything to do with Arafat's death and its aftermath. But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom have announced that he will not be buried Jerusalem or even in neighboring Abu Dis, once considered a possible site. Palestinian cabinet member Kadoura Fares said that if Israel were flexible, Arafat's...

DEBKAfile ticker says "Paris media report Arafat died a few minutes ago"