The Greatest Story Ever Told!

Winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, Yasser Arafat, the 75-year-old Palestinian leader, was determined to be clinically dead in a French military hospital in the early hours of Thursday morning. The much-loved, greatly-admired, venerated leader of Palestine, Yasser Arafat was,at last proclaimed ‘Dead’ by before the sunrise of Thursday, November-11. Arafat was being treated there for an unknown malady.

Despite his valiant verve, vigour and dynamism, the illustrious son of a holy land could not get through the battle for to survive—to live-on for translating his magnificent dream of a sovereign Palestine—into a reality, and thus leaving behind a big challenge for his aficionados—to face with.

Arafat’s take off to eternity has made a gallant nation—orphan, which is to fulfil the bona fide mission of its fêted leader, who, despite being a modest, yet spirited soul has won global admiration, as is manifested from the contents of the alluring messages—disseminated by the leaders from all-over the world—with an instant reaction on the sad story of his [Arafat’s] tragic demise.

…

Always dressed in Khaki uniform and with his trademark black and white Kaffiyeh wrapped around his head, he was deeply loved by the Palestinians for his extraordinary political courage, persistence and charisma.

He became a hero to many Palestinians by personally rallying resistance in the West Bank and organizing attacks against Israelis.

UN Spokesman stated:

The Secretary-General was deeply moved to learn of the death of President Yasser Arafat. President Arafat was one of those few leaders who could be instantly recognized by people in any walk of life all around the world. For nearly four decades, he expressed and symbolized in his person the national aspirations of the Palestinian people.

President Arafat was one of those few leaders who could be instantly recognized by people in any walk of life all around the world.

For nearly four decades, he expressed and symbolized in his person the national aspirations of the Palestinian people

President Arafat will always be remembered for having, in 1988, led the Palestinians to accept the principle of peaceful coexistence between Israel and a future Palestinian state. By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision

At UN Headquarters,. the UN flag has been lowered at half mast.

Other tributes from esteemed dignitaries:

Nelson Mandela: Yasser Arafat was one of the outstanding freedom fighters of this generation, one who gave his entire life to the cause of the Palestinian people. We honor his memory today. We express our sincerest condolences to his wife, family and the Palestinian people. It is with great sadness that one notes that his and his people's dream of a Palestinian state has not yet been realized."

The Vatican: The Holy See joins the pain of the Palestinian people for the passing of President Yasser Arafat. He was a leader of great charisma who loved his people and tried to guide them towards national independence

The top UN envoy for the Middle East Roed-Larsen captured the enigma of Arafat in comments Thursday.

"He was like a surrealistic painting, full of contradictions, full of mystery, full of inconstancies. He was complex, deep, superficial, rational, irrational, cold, warm. He may be the most fascinating person I have even met, and without comparison the most fascinating leader I have ever met," Roed-Larsen said.

Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Grand Sheik of Al-Azhar Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, led prayers for Mr Arafat.

"He has served his people all his life, until he faced his God, with courage and honesty. Let us pray for his soul," he said.

Arafat’s elegant, resolute, loyal and gentle wife, Suha—who is almost half of his age—was at the bedside, when the great visionary of a sovereign Palestine was proclaimed dead by the chief doctor of the military hospital, which leaves Arafat’s dream, spanning over half-a-century, yet to be translated into a reality.

Fulfilling the legitimate requires of the French sanatorium, Suha Arafat took the body of her illustrious husband with sobbing eyes—in audience of a lot of the aficionados of Arafat for a voyage to his ancestral home, Ramallah via the Egyptian capital—Cairo, where his funeral took place before laying him to rest on the soils of Palestine.

I can’t go on like this.

No, I didn’t write a single word of the previous worshipful deification of Arafat. I copy-pasted every word of this dishonest, hypocritical and self-serving crap from news articles published since Yasser Arafat’s death. This pile of lies would gag a maggot.

The pious platitudes heaped on this malicious fiend by the media and the Euro-weasels is more than I can take. To read the preceding quotes of these moral midgets you would think that Mother Teresa died. UN lowers its flag to half-mast in honor Yasser Arafat—this moral equivalent of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Ami or Mao, this unrepentant dynamiter of school buses—and calls him a statesman.

Kerry says the U.S. needs to gain the approval of the UN. Perhaps becoming a criminal regime that employs bloodthirsty terrorist might do the trick.

Arafat’s outrages are well known. A partial list includes the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the hijacking of a French airliner in Entebbe in 1976, and of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in 1985. it includes Arafat ordering the assassination of three American diplomats in the early 1970’s.

In 1974, after the 1972 Munich massacre, the UN general assembly gave the PLO “observer status” and applauded Arafat when he addressed them. This is the organization that Kerry wants America to defer regarding her self defense.

Yasser Arafat was financed and abetted by the malignant European Union. Arafat stole EU aid money and used it to finance terror operations against Israeli civilians.
Forbes reported :

Money keeps Arafat in power. With a tight grip on much of the $5.5 billion in international aid that has flowed into the PA since 1994, he appears to have overseen virtually all disbursements, from $600 payments to alleged terrorists and $1,500 in "tuition" for security officers, to $10 million, reportedly paid by a company controlled by friends of Arafat, for a 50-ton shipment of weapons from Iran.

Arafat abused EU and American aid to perverse effect:

From the Oslo Accords until the end of 2001, more than $5.5 billion was given to the PA in aid. This translates to $1,330 a Palestinian. In comparison, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II provided each European with $272 in today’s dollars. By 2003, the international aid totaling $5 billion in unmonitored funds has done little for the Palestinian economy — 60% of the Palestinian people have to survive on less than $2 a day. However, the lack of accountability for the funds has enabled Arafat to create a Palestinian Authority that is a full-fledged terrorist entity, perpetuating the suffering of both the Palestinian and the Israeli people. International and domestic demands for reform forced Mr. Arafat to make mostly cosmetic changes in a new Cabinet, which was approved by the Palestinian Legislative Council in October 2002. But Mr. Arafat has successfully circumvented the demand made by America that he be removed from a decision-making position in the Palestinian Authority. He has done so with the help of members of the European community, who keep referring to Mr. Arafat as the “legitimate leader” of the Palestinian people.

Forbes also reported that Arafat’s personal wealth is just slightly less than the Queen of England.

I can only speculate at how much better off the Palestinians might be if Arafat didn’t use the EU aid for terrorism, to purchase influence and to enrich himself. Arafat stole the money intended for his “people” while the EU blames Israel for the Palestinians misery.

I can only speculate how much the world would be if Arafat were denied support by first world nations and by transnational organizations because he was a terrorist; instead they coddled him.

Now, on Arafat’s death, the media and the weasel countries—and even the Vatican— refuse to denounce their creation: one of the world’s greatest terrorists. I call Arafat their creation because an international criminal could never attain his accomplishments without their support. Instead of hunting him down for the Munich massacre they tolerated him. They financed him. They called Arafat the “leader of the Palestinians” instead of calling a leader of a terrorist organization.

Instead holding Arafat responsible for his criminal acts—and themselves responsible for enabling Arafat—the EU, the UN, the media and leftists everywhere distance themselves from Arafat’s mayhem by sanitizing his record. Instead of blaming Arafat for his actions, instead of blaming themselves for setting up the conditions that enabled Arafat’s terrorism, the EU, the UN and the media blame—Israel.

Let this spectacle of the EU, the UN and the media be a cautionary example for anybody concerned with defending the U.S. from terrorism: don’t expect any help from these sphincters. They stuck up for a world-class terrorist in life and in his death. As for the terrorist’s victims Israel—and now the U.S.—they couldn’t care less.


Update:

Junkyard blog nails it with:

In the US media, mostly references to Arafat's "passionate nationalism," a sin committed by any Westerner transformed into virtue in any anti-American or anti-Jewish terrorist.

And NRO:

To judge by some of the reporting as he lay on his deathbed in Paris — the hushed tone of the television newsreaders, the flattering touched-up portrait photos on the cover of the London Times — Arafat was a figure who deserved to be deeply revered, a kind of ailing pope.

There was little mention of the fact that he played a central role in the growth of modern terrorism, and continued to instigate it until the end. That his hijacking of airplanes inspired al Qaeda, that he ruined the modern Olympics by gunning down athletes, that he had a wheelchair-bound American pensioner shot and thrown into the Mediterranean, or that the PLO's massacre of 21 young Israeli children in their school pre-dated Beslan.

Update 2:

The Jerusalem post reports:

Several French municipalities governed by communist and left-wing majorities are considering naming a street or a square after Yasser Arafat. [Emphasis mine—johnh]

How appropriate. According to The Black Book of Communism a conservative estimate of the worldwide death toll from the communist movement is a 100 million people—all political homicide victims. On the other hand I cannot say how many thousands—and it is multiple thousands—of people were murdered by Yasser Arafat's organizations and associates. I can't find anybody who has worked out the numbers.

I can think of several reasons why the leftists would want register their appreciation of Arafat’s lifetime accomplishments; my only question is “which one?”

Was it for his thousands of political homicide victims? True he never approached the full extent of communism’s 100 megadeaths but hey, let’s be fair, Arafat didn’t have control of almost all of Asia.

Was it for ensuring that his larceny of EU and American aid would leave “his people” as destitute as possible—inspite of receiving per-capital aid exceeding the post World War II Marshall Plan? The Palestinians grinding poverty is just as miserable as any suffered within the “worker’s paradise”.

Was it for violating every agreement he every signed? The ghosts of the evil empires—and the leaders of the few remaining ones—had to be nodding in satisfaction as the credulous EU nations bullied Israel into signing short-lived agreement after short-lived agreement with Arafat.

Was it for his unrelenting efforts to destroy the only pluralistic democracy in the Arabic Middle East? True, Arafat never achieved but—to be fair—the USSR never quite destroyed the Western European democracies before the gipper did her in. Arafat should be given demerits for what the great masters couldn’t pull off themselves.

Who knows? Perhaps they are exalting Arafat for all of the above reasons; any one of them should suffice.

Postscript:

I beat up the French (again) in this post for eulogizing Arafat as if he were Lady Di. In a way that's OK with me, the only honor they're staining is their own.

On the other hand, to give credit where it is due, The Black Book of Communism—which I quoted— was first published in France in 1997.