Thursday, November 11, 2004
From LGF:
At the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the names of his victims only since 2000! Do the right thing and take a moment to click on a couple and put a face with the letters on the page.
Jacques Chirac is quite put out: '"I have come to bow before president Yasser Arafat and pay him a final homage," he said after the 25-minute visit.'
CAMERA has a time-line highlighting many of Arafat's career "achievements."
Honest Reporting also has a detailed biography as well as a one-minute film.
Dean says: "Terrorist Scumbag Officially Dead"
Harry says: "While the Mainstream Media (and especially the BBC World Service) today swoon over the death of a murderous terrorist and kleptocrat, let's remember to thank the many who for many years and to this very day fight the totalitarians and the terrorists of this world."
OceanGuy says: "...In the coming days we'll be bombarded with the chimerical heroism of this cruel, corrupt, and evil man... It's already started..."
Roger says: "Looked at objectively, he had more contempt for the Palestinian people that anybody alive."
Big Trunk says: "...Over the final four years of his life he presided over the renewed terrorist war against Israel in which he funded and personally approved the suicide bomb operations that are his true contribution to civilization -- a contribution that made him a hero in European capitals from London to Berlin..."
Meryl has lots of links and says: "...know that Arafat's legacy of death will be his footnote in history, not the emergence of the palestinian state. He failed at his greatest goal. He could not destroy Israel, and he could not lead his people to independence...'
Dave also has lots of stuff, including some suggestions for Yasser's tombstone.
Another Dave says: "Even though he's been dead for an entire week Arafat died a couple of minutes ago." and points to this absolutely friggin' must-read piece by Jeff Jacoby, Arafat the monster:
In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were hanged at Nuremberg. In a better world, the French president would not have paid a visit to the bedside of such a monster. In a better world, George Bush would not have said, on hearing the first reports that Arafat had died, "God bless his soul."
God bless his soul? What a grotesque idea! Bless the soul of the man who brought modern terrorism to the world? Who sent his agents to slaughter athletes at the Olympics, blow airliners out of the sky, bomb schools and pizzerias, machine-gun passengers in airline terminals? Who lied, cheated, and stole without compunction? Who inculcated the vilest culture of Jew-hatred since the Third Reich? Human beings might stoop to bless a creature so evil -- as indeed Arafat was blessed, with money, deference, even a Nobel Prize -- but God, I am quite sure, will damn him for eternity...
Tom Pain says: "No Virgins!?!"
Alisa says: "THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!"
Chrenkoff says: "The curse of Chrenkoff strikes - I write about the guy and about an hour later he dies."
Who's Your Rabbi? finds that Yasser had a twin!
Max Boot explains How Arafat Got Away With It.
Andunie says: "A treacherous, murderous, thieving, genocidal maggot of a man is dead—and his passing was far too easy for the multitudes killed and maimed by his command, or for the people he supposedly led, but in truth exploited, robbed blind, and finally molded into a freakish and bloodthirsty death cult."
He points to this OpinionJournal piece by Bret Stephens: A Gangster With Politics - After Arafat, what's left of the Palestinian cause? Not much.
The World points to this round-up and notes: "This is a moment to remember his victims."
From a comment there I find that David Carr of Samizdata observes: "Reports from Paris indicate that there has been a marked improvement in the condition of Yasser Arafat.
He's dead."
Undercaffeinated makes use of some visual aids.
Mog: "...And the world mourns this man. That is so totally screwed up..."
Shai has a longish and worthwhile piece: "...No, I'd rather talk about Arafat the murderer, Arafat the liar, Arafat the thief, and Arafat the father of modern terrorism, our almost-constant plague for the last four decades. Yes, the man did take his peoples' cause and elevate it to international awareness. But the Palestinians made a devil's bargain: In return for the recognition, Arafat made the name of the Palestinians synonymous with hijacking, hostage-taking, terrorism, and murder. He took his society and led it down the road to becoming a large Islamic death cult..."
Two posts at the Head Heeb's: One from Danny: "...Still, when Arafat’s death was reported a week ago, I was hoping that he might live a while longer - on a gut level I hated the idea of him dying on November 4th, the day Rabin was assassinated. In 1993, when the Oslo agreement was signed on the White House lawn, I remember thinking to myself how disagreeable it must have been for Rabin to shake Arafat’s hand; I thought, half-jokingly, that Rabin should agree to shake his hand only if Arafat showed up bare-headed, clean-shaven, and wearing a suit..." and then from Jonathan himself: "...Seizure of the spoils, both political and financial, is common among such leaders, and all too often their people ultimately have to be liberated from them..."
Bjorn Staerk has a run-down and mini-fisking of stuff emanating from Norway: '..."Good riddance, and better luck with the next one." - Bjørn Stærk, web pundit. (Hm, how did that make it into the list? I blame nepotism!)'
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Here's a suggestion, a joke that will really piss off certain hypocrites: Each time someone starts talking about how "great" Arafat was, immediately start singing and disco-dancing:
"MACHO, MACHO MAN! I WANT TO BE A MACHO MAN..."
Not that there's anything wrong with THAT. Honestly.