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Looters raid Arafat's home, steal his Nobel Peace Prize
The Jerusalem Post ^ | 6/17/07 | KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Posted on 06/17/2007 9:36:02 AM PDT by ricks_place

Enraged Fatah leaders on Saturday accused Hamas militiamen of looting the home of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City.

"They stole almost everything inside the house, including Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize medal," said Ramallah-based Fatah spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman. "Hamas militiamen and gangsters blew up the main entrance to the house before storming it. They stole many of Arafat's documents and files, gifts he had received from world leaders and even his military outfits."

Abdel Rahman said the attackers also raided the second floor of the house and stole the personal belongings of his widow, Suha, and daughter, Zahwa. "They stole all the widow's clothes and shoes," he added. "They also took Arafat's pictures with his daughter."

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: arafat; gaza; hamas; looters
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Arafat Loved Peace Well Enough...

But Loved Children a Little Too Much.

1 posted on 06/17/2007 9:36:03 AM PDT by ricks_place
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Well, Mr. Arafat of sorry memory looted the Palistinian people for decades. What goes around comes around.


2 posted on 06/17/2007 9:40:49 AM PDT by OldCorps
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Well that’s fair since Islamoterrorist Pig Arafat stole it from somebody who was a lot more worthy in the first place.

It was probably Jimmah Cahtah who sent the gang of thieves to get it since he probably thinks he deserves it.


3 posted on 06/17/2007 9:41:19 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: ricks_place

looting Arafat, isn’t that redundant?


4 posted on 06/17/2007 9:42:13 AM PDT by herMANroberts
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To: garyhope
It was probably Jimmah Cahtah

His is next!

5 posted on 06/17/2007 9:46:26 AM PDT by SouthTexas
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“”They stole all the widow’s clothes and shoes,”
To dress up their favorite goats!


6 posted on 06/17/2007 9:52:15 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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Didn’t take long to raid that tomb, did it.

The Arafat Peace Prize medal will probably be traded among wealthy collectors, and lay in some dusty collection somewhere, for decades or even centuries, before it is ever seen again.

By then, it shall have gained the cachet of the Holy Grail.


7 posted on 06/17/2007 9:57:25 AM PDT by alloysteel (Choose carefully the hill you would die upon. For if you win, the view is magnificent.)
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8 posted on 06/17/2007 10:02:34 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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That’s a prize that was worth nothing. Oslo proved with that prize that it had no morals.
9 posted on 06/17/2007 10:03:05 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
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" .. the raid on Arafat's house, which has been empty since 2001, .. "

Suha split and never came back and the stupid Pali's just never got the memo ... "Screw you, I'm out'a here."

10 posted on 06/17/2007 10:04:37 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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Before it is ever seen again...

Exactly what that particular medal deserves, IMHO.


11 posted on 06/17/2007 10:11:43 AM PDT by Codename - Ron Benjamin (I'm gonna sing the doom song now. Pre-emptive, multi-tasking, interrupt control!)
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Looters raid Arafat's home, steal his Nobel Peace Prize

Karma at work my FRiends, what goes around,,,,,comes around!

12 posted on 06/17/2007 10:15:43 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (HEY JORGE, SHUT UP AND BUILD THE BLEEPING FENCE, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.)
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Whoever has Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize now can’t deserve it any less than he did.


13 posted on 06/17/2007 10:16:15 AM PDT by Generic_Login_1787
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
“”They stole all the widow’s clothes and shoes,” "To dress up their favorite goats!"


14 posted on 06/17/2007 10:21:12 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: ricks_place

When I first saw this I split a gut laughing.


15 posted on 06/17/2007 11:37:00 AM PDT by Argus
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His Nobel prize isn’t worth much to him where he is now.


16 posted on 06/17/2007 11:37:08 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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“What goes around comes around.”

I think Arafat has already learned that God will demonstrate the result of the error of our ways, sooner or later. I think he got that message before Hamas stole his Nobel Peace Prize.

The larger issue for me is:

For the world’s media outlets you cannot help but understand the self-denial they are putting themselves through these days as they standby and find shear amazement (to them) at the behavior of Hamas toward Arafat’s memory; as such behavior does not comport with the image they sold to the people of the world.

Meanwhile, the last thing the media would do at this time would be to admit either their amazement or how they willingly volunteered to help create the myth of Arafat that Hamas is shattering.


17 posted on 06/17/2007 11:47:12 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

All the clothes and shoes would be a little out of style since that nasty bitch hasn’t been living there for 15 years or so.


18 posted on 06/17/2007 12:01:09 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (If there's lead in the air,there's hope.)
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To: alloysteel

Or on e-Bay!I would bid on it as I would love to use it for target practice.


19 posted on 06/17/2007 12:33:25 PM PDT by xarmydog
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Wasn’t worth crap anyway — just like Jimmah Cahtah’s — a public joke.


20 posted on 06/17/2007 12:38:12 PM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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