Posted on 10/31/2004 6:17:54 PM PST by Dallas59
From The BBC via LGF
The world watches the unfolding drama as the man who has become the symbol for Palestinian nationalism seems to hover between life and death. Though full of uncertainties, Mr Arafat's life has been one of sheer dedication and resilience.
Yet when the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound, I started to cry... without warning.
In quieter moments since I have asked myself, why the sudden surge of emotion?
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hopefully the next stop in his journey is the depths of hell.
I'd be crying if he was not dying.
wait untill next year folks-The BBC is starting a news service on tv 24/7 in the USA..the beeb sucks
Unrelenting is right.
Won't this guy just DIE already.
The BBC has sure changed from a respected news source to an all out shill for Muslim extremists, yet they have the nerve to lecture American news organisations (who leans so far left they need a tether strap to keep them from falling off the cliff) about how conservative they are.
Just amazing that the BBC reported the old puff terrorist as a hero of sorts.
Remember when the BBC was respected throughout the world??? Now it's a joke.
They'll play AC/DC at his funeral because his unrelenting journey is a "Highway to Hell."
In quieter moments since I have asked myself, why the sudden surge of emotion?
Er, because you're a particularly gauzy, vacant-skulled female who finds in Arafat the Hell's Angels gang leader of your dreams? Because you are a walking, talking, weeping advertisement for Dr Olesen's Stockholm-Syndrome Clinic? Because you are, rather like Arafat his ownself, no damn use at all?
Merciful God, deliver us from the boobs at the Beeb.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Foreign journalists seemed much more excited about Mr Arafat's fate than anyone in Ramallah.
We hovered around the gate to his compound, swarming around the Palestinian officials who drove by, poking our microphones through their dark, half-open windows.
But where were the people, I wondered, the mass demonstrations of solidarity, the frantic expressions of concern?
.....There was his triumphant return to the Gaza Strip in 1994, when the Oslo Peace Accords appeared to open the window to a Palestinian state. Tens of thousands of people cheered his arrival; they were even hanging from the trees!
Compare that to the few hundred loyalists who came out to watch him leave the West Bank on Friday, waving and calling out one of his favourite sayings: the mountain cannot be shaken by the wind.
Little Ms. Radical Chic is inadvertently telling the real story in spite of herself. The Palis are silently grateful to be rid of him at last and no, he will not be allowed back, but it won't be Sharon deciding this.
This guy Yasser invented skyjackings. Need I say anymore????
Oh?
A fan of "martyrdom," strictly for others, who will die old, of natural causes, and in bed.
And a multi- multi-millionaire (I've seen estimates of upwards of $300 Million!)
Please God Kill Arafat NOW! and if you want to take ALL his supporters, I will not object.
"While Arafat's supporters like to compare him to George Washington, Americans must not be fooled. George Washington was known throughout the world not only as the father of our country, he was known as the "father of freedom." Arafat, on the other hand, is the father of modern terrorism – the very same kind of terrorism that struck the U.S. so hard Sept. 11.
It was Arafat, after all, who pioneered the airline hijacking and the spectacular terrorist action that would rivet the world..."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27608
How many guys do you think were inspired to go 18 series because they despise bastards like this?
This idiot makes one long for the day when women could not vote!!!
Can't wait till Arafat croaks. He's a terrorist thug...and should never have been allowed to receive medical treatment or to leave his compound. That's like saying we should feel sorry for Osama Bin Laden if he were on his death bed...The Eurotrash media (e.g., BBC) is a bunch of pathetic, mediocre, terrorist-supporting journalists. This is article is evidence of that.
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