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Thread #75325 Message #1321570
Posted By: GUEST
09-Nov-04 - 12:29 PM
Thread Name: Arafat is dead--11 November 2004
Subject: RE: BS: Arafat dead--unconfirmed at this moment.
I don't think the Israelis will allow a burial anywhere in the territories. Maybe a nice, quiet cemetary just outside Paris, like Jim Morrison.
Say what you will about Arafat, but he did more to bring the plight of the Palestinians to the world stage and showed the Israelis to be the military wing of the US government in the Middle East more than anyone, and that will be his legacy.
And that ain't a bad legacy.
But he has been ineffective for a long time. Which is why the Israelis have been so trigger happy killing off the Hamas leadership. The PLO is well past the use-by date, it's been Hamas running the show for a long time, which will also continue for a long time to come. No matter how big the Israelic concentration camp gets.