Posted on 01/01/2008 8:37:26 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Bush won't visit Yasser Arafat's tomb Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 1, 2008
Palestinian Authority officials on Monday expressed deep disappointment after learning that US President George W. Bush, who is expected to visit Ramallah soon, does not intend to lay a wreath at Yasser Arafat's tomb.
Bush, who is also expected to visit Jericho and Bethlehem, does not even plan to pass near the tomb.
On the eve of Bush's visit, the PA announced that its security forces in the West Bank had thwarted a suicide bombing in Israel.
PA Information Minister Riad al-Malki said a Hamas would-be suicide bomber was arrested shortly before he was due to set out on his mission. The PA security forces also seized a videotape featuring the would-be bomber that was supposed to have been released after the attack, he said.
Malki reiterated claims that last Friday's shooting attack in the Hebron Hills, in which two Israelis were killed, was "criminally motivated." He said the PA security forces had arrested the perpetrators and seized the rifles they took from their victims, two off-duty soldiers.
"A group of young men carried out the attack in order to take the weapons of the two settlers," Malki said. "Our forces pursued them, arrested them and returned the weapons to the Israelis."
Bush would not stop by Arafat's newly-built mausoleum during his visit to Ramallah, a source in the US Consulate in Jerusalem told The Jerusalem Post. The PA has invested millions of dollars in building the mausoleum in the Mukata "presidential" compound.
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Aw, well that’s too freakin’ bad. I’d rather leave some C4 with a timer.
Shame!
And risk spreading the corpse’s AIDS around?
Why is he putting his life in the hands of Palestinians?
Not even to spit on it?
..he should, this way he can bring back evidence of hildabeast lipstick DNA, especially if he's entombed face down
you know Reid and Pelosi would
How that? Who claims this. His life will be as always in the hands of the Security Service.
Secret Service
Bush won’t visit Yasser Arafat’s tomb
They have landfills in Ramallah.
I did not know that.
Clinton and Arafat look like speed-daters at a gay bar.
Was there some question about this?
HEAR HEAR!!
Why the hell would any American want to do that??
Remember Arafat donating blood after 9/11? Imagine if anyone had actually received that goat-screwer’s blood.
Bush won’t visit Yasser Arafat’s tomb
No problem, Condi will.
Too bad, it's good place to take a piss.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
“What I’ll leave on yer grave won’t pass fer flowers”. — Line from The Shootist.
That is disturbing!
They probably have other urinals for VIP's but I think "Arafat's Tomb" would be a great euphemism for a public toilet.
Terrorists. ....and ones to whom we're giving hundreds of millions U.S. taxpayer dollars this year.
Kudos to George for not paying respects to the founder of modern terrorism (Arafat), but he should really look elsewhere for a legacy.
Hillary would too.
At least we’re spared this small humiliation after the huge humiliation of losing half of Jerusalem.
I'm so pleased to hear that my taxes went to pay for this. The scumbag didn't even have the class to use some of the billion dollars he stole from the "Palestinian people" to pay for his own burial. President Bush should fly Air Force One overhead and order the latrine tanks emptied onto Arafat's grave.
Any truth to the rumor that Arafag was buried face down?
That's terrible! Why is President Bush passing a once-in-a-lifetime chance to pee on Ara_fat's grave?
Bush doesn’t know how to spit in the direction of the Pali’s
So that is where all the rest of the rebuilding humanitariasm money went to.
I guess there will be more security people on this trip and in and around Bush than ants on an ant hill. It would not surprise me one bit that the Muzzie suicide bombers are lining up to try to blow him up. They are probably killing each other to be first in line to try to kill Bush and company with a bomb. This is going to be a dangerous time for everyone in and around this get together.
Seems it'd be a waste of time considering that there are plenty of clean restrooms around to take a dump.
Better for the prez just say no as opposed to going to visit and pissing on Arafat’s grave.
Praise Heaven he won’t visit that murderer’s grave..
He does read the Bible. Every year. Over and over.
There are different reactions to certain aspects of the Bible, as I am sure you must know. There are those who believe that Jews (of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin, so what about the rest of Israel?...but I digress) are entitled to the land with its original boundaries forever, no matter what.
There are those who believe that God’s grant was conditional and not in perpetuity unless certain conditions were met by the land’s occupants. Hence the long stretches of time when the land was emptied of its original inhabitants and occupied by others or has laid in ruins.
Modern day Israel is a haven for Jews from Hitler’s holocaust and other nations’ persecution of Jews. Its charter rests on its establishment and recognition by major nations just after World War II. I do not wish to argue about it. I have my views and apparently you have your differing ones.
The President is entitled to his without people virtually screaming to his face a slogan that virtually accuses him of not reading the Bible. As pointed out, I know that to be a lying accusation.
He is dealing with Israel as an ally and key player in a terrible, dangerous region. He is dealing with Israel as a nation which shares many of our values. He is accutely aware of the holocaust and never wants to see its like again. Whether or not he believes God gave it to Israel forever, no matter what, I don’t know and don’t care.
If Israel, a sovereign nation, wants to make agreements with its Palestinian and other enemies regarding the land, I will hold Israel accountable for whatever it does, not George W Bush. They are not some tiny baby whose fate is not in its own hands.
BTW, there are elements in scripture that indicate there is a physical Israel AND a spiritual Israel, and those who are Christians read their Bibles to say that the Christian Church is being referred to when spiritual Israel is referenced...in most instances. Some Christians believe physical Israel is included in that, no matter what physical Israel does or what century it does it in, and other Christians believe it references the Christian Church, period, with the exception of those Jews who acknowledge Jesus Christ.
That’s a pretty temperate, well reasoned, (and true) reply.
May God uphold President Bush, for whom I pray.
WADR to your attempt at a “reasoned” reply, you can keep your replacement theology and wave it at the jihadis who will take the surrender by corrupt leftist “leaders” in “Israel, a sovereign nation” (with the encouragement by an arabist U.S. state dept advising Pres Bush) simply as further incentive to attack America and the rest of the Judeo-Christian west.
He'll still send them food.
He'll Still send them medicine.
It doesn't mean a tinkers damn what ground he stands on, its the Supplies and Cash ( Yours and Mine by the way ) Thats what matters and thats whats wrong.
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