Yasser Arafat is brain dead, according to Israeli television quoting French sources.
The 75-year-old Palestinian leader's health has been reported to be deteriorating by the hour but there is still no official confirmation of his death.
However, Palestinian officials have denied the reports and say his condition has not changed.
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It was also the Israelis who told us that Arafat was ill in the first place. Now, the Isaelis are telling us that Arafat is brain-dead. These Israelis seem to know an awful lot about Arafat's "mystery illness." I guess they should at least know what happens to a man who ingests what they slipped in Arafat's food or drink. Posts: 449 | Registered: Mar 2001
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quote:It was also the Israelis who told us that Arafat was ill in the first place. Now, the Isaelis are telling us that Arafat is brain-dead. These Israelis seem to know an awful lot about Arafat's "mystery illness." I guess they should at least know what happens to a man who ingests what they slipped in Arafat's food or drink. - Daud
I think I might agree with you here but it does not absolve me from maintaining support for the Israelis. Do you then going by your theory think that obasanjo, the rogue know about all the political killings in nigeria based on his utterances each time someone is killed? I think he does. So my dear Daud, how come you never took this same view all these time? You must be consistent if you want to look believable. Thank you.
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I think it is absurd to insinuate that the Isrealis poisoned Yassar Arafat.While the Isreali MOSSAD remains the best intelligence outfit on the face of the earth,it`s crazy to think that MOSSAD has no limitations of its ability. Why not equally accuse the brave French doctors battling to save Arafat`s life of complicity in his deteriorating health?
Cancers of whatever organ in the body is one phenomenon that have defied complete cure inspite of the armada of medical technology available to man.We have been unable to figure out how to beat it.Maybe it`s another way of teaching all humanity about the omniscience of God the creator and our ultimate vulnerability to rather simple things as mere mortals despite all our power or wealth.
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Arafat is not dead yet. When he dies, the world community will know. For some time now Arafat’s health had been deteriorating but the man had stoically refused to leave his Ramallah compound to get some medical attention from Western countries with comparatively better medical and health facilities. If he had a benign cancerous tumor anywhere in his respiratory apparatus, these years of neglecting the disease would have only made it worse.
The good news here is that the Palestinian Authority is being proactive rather than reactive. They have given Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia some more powers to take over in case the 75 year old Palestinian symbol of Immobility and Retrogression does fall into and remain in a vegetative state or perhaps kicks the bucket out there in that French military hospital.
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Arafat wants to be buried in Arab East Jerusalem. But, the Israelis have vowed to block his burial there. A few months ago, Arial Sharon told Bush that he would no longer guarantee Arafat's safety in the Israeli surrounded Arafat compound in Ramallah. That was after Sharon told the world that Arafat would not be allowed to return to Palestine if he ever left for any reason, including to attend an Arab League summit.
Yet, Dr. Alhaji Anaedo and the Israeli doctors who mysteriously know Arafat's prognosis have this to say:
quote:For some time now Arafat’s health had been deteriorating but the man had stoically refused to leave his Ramallah compound to get some medical attention from Western countries with comparatively better medical and health facilities. If he had a benign cancerous tumor anywhere in his respiratory apparatus, these years of neglecting the disease would have only made it worse.
And these are the people who supported their Ikemba who barricaded himself in his Enugu compound during his clash with the SSS even when no one told him he could not leave or would not be allowed to return if he left. Na real wah!
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Arafat will not be buried in Jerusalem and you know that, the man was never from Jerusalem and you also know that. It is in the best interest of everybody that people do not try to use his eventual death to stir up anymore problems. The best that can happen is that he be buried in Gaza.
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quote: Arafat wants to be buried in Arab East Jerusalem. But, the Israelis have vowed to block his burial there. A few months ago, Arial Sharon told Bush that he would no longer guarantee Arafat's safety in the Israeli surrounded Arafat compound in Ramallah. That was after Sharon told the world that Arafat would not be allowed to return to Palestine if he ever left for any reason, including to attend an Arab League summit.
Long before Arafat’s Ramallah compound got sealed off by Israeli forces to ward off contacts between this 75-year old leader and instigator of terrorism against Israelis and sundry terrorist groups sympathetic to the Palestinians, Arafat had always made it abundantly clear that he wants to go out like a martyr in the face of the disproportionate manifestation of Israeli military power. He was of course given the option of leaving permanently, but the self-righteous incompetent leader of a clique of brutish terrorist opted out. There have been many cases where his health was compromised, but the man also refused to get any treatment.
And now you want to hold Sharon responsible for Arafat’s safety? Does this “brilliant” logic suggest that when your Tiv relative, the murderous Yakubu Gowon was presiding over the clash between Nigeria and Biafra back then, you would have come out to demand from Gowon a sworn affidavit to protect or guarantee the safety of the Ikemba? Does this mean that the Chechens who have now recently embraced terrorism as a tool should demand from Putin a concession to guarantee the safety of the leader of their violent, extremist separatist faction? How do you convince the world community to support self-determination amongst groups that illogically settle for violence especially when it targets, not the authority figures and instruments of their oppression like the soldiers, but INNOCENT AND HELPLESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN? Here, the fundamental basis of your argument is flawed, and any person whether they fought on the Nigerian or the Biafran side of the civil war will tell or explain to you that the situation obtainable in our case is abundantly different.
quote:And these are the people who supported their Ikemba who barricaded himself in his Enugu compound during his clash with the SSS even when no one told him he could not leave or would not be allowed to return if he left. Na real wah!
Dr Ogbuefi Daud, with Arafat blocking every genuine effort by the US and the World Community at reconciling the Israelis and the Palestinians (his mindless support of terrorists and sanctioning of acts of terror comes to mind here) especially when it became public knowledge that the US had finally budged and disagreed with the hardliners in the Knesset regarding the question of a Palestinian state, sympathizers to the Palestinian cause like yourself and indeed most Palestinians should not cry us a lagoon if indeed Ariel Sharon refuses to allow Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem. Again, your subtle insinuation doesn’t work here because, unlike Arafat who has/had the sympathy of most of the world and an eagerness to fight for him in the UN (albeit the man continues to weaken his supporters by embracing terror), the Ikemba didn’t enjoy the tremendous support of the world, let alone, the powerbrokers in the UN. The Ikemba is definitely not stupid—if he had Arafat’s choices, there would be a Biafra today.
But really, why should Sharon/the Jews allow Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem? The conflict has not been settled, and since Arafat has not learnt that condoning acts of terror frustrates even his Jew-hating supporters in the UN, the Israelis are within their rights as a comparatively stronger power to refuse Arafat’s wish. Are there no pieces of real estate in Palestinian controlled areas where this Symbol of Statism could be buried?
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Unfortunately, Mr. Yassar Arafat is not from the holy land and should not be buried in Gaza; many a truth is strangled when the world claim ignorance about the maximum Arab inheritance of the holy land which can only be atributed to the Bethlehem area Arab Christians.
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quote:And these are the people who supported their Ikemba who barricaded himself in his Enugu compound during his clash with the SSS even when no one told him he could not leave or would not be allowed to return if he left. Na real wah!
You are a total NICOMPOOP for the insulting comparison of Honorable Odumegwu-Ojukwu to a terror mastermind. Could you tell us how many terrorist activists was attributable to the latter while I remind you that arafat was instrumental in the kidnapping and killing of U.S. diplomats in the seventies and eighties. Why do your father, I mean IBB and all the other smelly northern terror chieftains move around the country with escorts and so-called body guards? Cowards! So, tell us more about Ojukwu!
Back to the Israeli – Palestinian issue:
Who are the Palestinians?
What is their history?
Where did they come from?
How did they arrive in the country they call Palestine?
Who are these people who claim the Holy Land as their own?
The article below, which qualifies for a postgraduate research work or a 600 level history course hopefully will clear any doubt still existing.
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Subject:Myths and facts From:amir Date:Dec 27 2001 8:07 AM
The Myth Of The Palestinian People Yehezkel Bin-Nun 26 December 2001
"Palestinians doubt Blair can deliver," announces the BBC. "Four Palestinians die in West Bank," reports CNN. "IDF demolishes building used by Palestinian gunmen," announces Israel's government run Channel 1 News. The modern media is filled with stories about the Palestinians, their plight, their dilemmas and their struggles. All aspects of their lives seem to have been put under the microscope. Only one question never seems to be addressed: Who are the Palestinians? Who are these people who claim the Holy Land as their own? What is their history? Where did they come from? How did they arrive in the country they call Palestine? Now that both US President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (in direct opposition to the platform he was elected on) have come out in favor of a Palestinian state, it would be prudent to seek answers to these questions. For all we know, Palestine could be as real as Disneyland.
The general impression given in the media is that Palestinians have lived in the Holy Land for hundreds, if not thousands of years. No wonder, then, that a recent poll of French citizens shows that the majority believe (falsely) that prior to the establishment of the State of Israel an independent Arab Palestinian state existed in its place. Yet curiously, when it comes to giving the history of this "ancient" people most news outlets find it harder to go back more than the early nineteen hundreds. CNN, an agency which has devoted countless hours of airtime to the "plight" of the Palestinians, has a website which features a special section on the Middle East conflict called "Struggle For Peace". It includes a promising sounding section entitled "Lands Through The Ages" which assures us it will detail the history of the region using maps. Strangely, it turns out, the maps displayed start no earlier than the ancient date of 1917. The CBS News website has a background section called "A Struggle For Middle East Peace.'' Its history timeline starts no earlier than 1897. The NBC News background section called "Searching for Peace" has a timeline, which starts in 1916. BBC's timeline starts in 1948.
Yet, the clincher must certainly be the Palestinian National Authority's own website. While it is top heavy on such phrases as "Israeli occupation" and "Israeli human rights violations" the site offers practically nothing on the history of the so-called Palestinian people. The only article on the site with any historical content is called "Palestinian History - 20th Century Milestones" which seems only to confirm that prior to 1900 there was no such concept as the Palestinian People.
While the modern media maybe short on information about the history of the "Palestinian people" the historical record is not. Books, such as Battleground by Samuel Katz and From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters long ago detailed the history of the region. Far from being settled by Palestinians for hundreds, if not thousands of years, the Land of Israel, according to dozens of visitors to the land, was, until the beginning of the last century, practically empty. Alphonse de Lamartine visited the land in 1835. In his book, Recollections of the East, he writes "Outside the gates of Jerusalem we saw no living object, heard no living sound." None other than the famous American author Mark Twain, who visited the Land of Israel in 1867, confirms this. In his book Innocents Abroad he writes, "A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action. We reached Tabor safely. We never saw a human being on the whole journey." Even the British Consul in Palestine reported, in 1857, "The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population"
In fact, according to official Ottoman Turk census figures of 1882, in the entire Land of Israel, there were only 141,000 Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab. This number was to skyrocket to 650,000 Arabs by 1922, a 450% increase in only 40 years. By 1938 that number would become over 1 million or an 800% increase in only 56 years. Population growth was especially high in areas where Jews lived. Where did all these Arabs come from? According to the Arabs the huge increase in their numbers was due to natural childbirth. In 1944, for example, they alleged that the natural increase (births minus deaths) of Arabs in the Land of Israel was the astounding figure of 334 per 1000. That would make it roughly three times the corresponding rate for the same year of Lebanon and Syria and almost four times that of Egypt, considered amongst the highest in the world. Unlikely, to say the least. If the massive increase was not due to natural births, then were did all these Arabs come from?
All the evidence points to the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. In 1922 the British Governor of the Sinai noted that "illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria." In 1930, the British Mandate -sponsored Hope-Simpson Report noted that "unemployment lists are being swollen by immigrants from Trans-Jordania" and "illicit immigration through Syria and across the northern frontier of Palestine is material." The Arabs themselves bare witness to this trend. For example, the governor of the Syrian district of Hauran, Tewfik Bey el Hurani, admitted in 1934 that in a single period of only a few months over 30,000 Syrians from Hauran had moved to the Land of Israel. Even British Prime Minister Winston Churchill noted the Arab influx. Churchill, a veteran of the early years of the British mandate in the Land of Israel, noted in 1939 that "far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied."
Far from displacing the Arabs, as they claimed, the Jews were the very reason the Arabs chose to settle in the Land of Israel. Jobs provided by newly established Zionist industry and agriculture lured them there, just as Israeli construction and industry provides most Arabs in the Land of Israel with their main source of income today. Malcolm MacDonald, one of the principal authors of the British White Paper of 1939, which restricted Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel, admitted (conservatively) that were it not for a Jewish presence the Arab population would have been little more than half of what it actually was. Today, when due to the latest "intifada" Arabs from the territories under 35 are no longer allowed into pre-1967 Israel to work, unemployment has skyrocketed to over 40% and most rely on European aid packages to survive.
Not only pre-state Arabs lied about being indigenous. Even today, many prominent so-called Palestinians, it turns out, are foreign born. Edward Said, an Ivy League Professor of Literature and a major Palestinian propagandist, long claimed to have been raised in Jerusalem. However, in an article in the September 1999 issue of Commentary Magazine Justus Reid Weiner revealed that Said actually grew up in Cairo, Egypt, a fact which Said himself was later forced to admit. But why bother with Said? PLO chief Yasir Arafat himself, self declared "leader of the Palestinian people", has always claimed to have been born and raised in "Palestine". In fact, according to his official biographer Richard Hart, as well as the BBC, Arafat was born in Cairo on August 24, 1929 and that's where he grew up.
To maintain the charade of being an indigenous population, Arab propagandists have had to do more than a little rewriting of history. A major part of this rewriting involves the renaming of geography. For two thousand years the central mountainous region of Israel was known as Judea and Samaria, as any medieval map of the area testifies. However, the state of Jordan occupied the area in 1948 and renamed it the West Bank. This is a funny name for a region that actually lies in the eastern portion of the land and can only be called "West" in reference to Jordan. This does not seem to bother the majority of news outlets covering the region, which universally refer to the region by its recent Jordanian name.
The term "Palestinian" is itself a masterful twisting of history. To portray themselves as indigenous, Arab settlers adopted the name of an ancient Canaanite tribe, the Phillistines, that died out almost 3000 years ago. The connection between this tribe and modern day Arabs is nil. Who is to know the difference? Given the absence of any historical record, one can understand why Yasser Arafat claims that Jesus Christ, a Jewish carpenter from the Galilee, was a Palestinian. Every year, at Christmas time, Arafat goes to Bethlehem and tells worshippers that Jesus was in fact "the first Palestinian".
If the Palestinians are indeed a myth, then the real question becomes "Why?" Why invent a fictitious people? The answer is that the myth of the Palestinian People serves as the justification for Arab occupation of the Land of Israel. While the Arabs already possess 21 sovereign countries of their own (more than any other single people on earth) and control a land mass 800 times the size of the Land of Israel, this is apparently not enough for them. They therefore feel the need to rob the Jews of their one and only country, one of the smallest on the planet. Unfortunately, many people ignorant of the history of the region, including much of the world media, are only too willing to help.
It is interesting to note that the Bible makes reference to a fictitious nation confronting Israel. "They have provoked me to jealously by worshipping a non-god, angered me with their vanities. I will provoke them with a non-nation; anger them with a foolish nation (Deuteronomy 32:21)."
On second thought, it may be unfair to compare Palestine to Disneyland. After all, Disneyland really exists." Unquote
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quote: "Jerusalem is the city where Jewish kings are buried and not Arab terrorists," Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid said Friday.
One possibility that's been discussed is a burial in Egypt. Arafat was born in Egypt, though he once claimed to have been born in Jerusalem. Gaza is also a possibility. Arafat's father and sister are buried near the Khan Younis refugee camp in central Gaza.
Mr. Yassar Arafat should be buried in Egypt since he is an Egyptain, all the talk of a holyland burial is absurd.
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You still don't get it. Arafat is one of the most important world leaders. He is a statesman, and the world recognized him as such by awarding him the Nobel Prize for Peace. Yes, Arafat is both a man of war and a man of peace. He waged war, and he decided later to follow the path of peace. To call Arafat a terrorist is to display ignorance of the worst kind; it is to call Ojukwu a terrorist
It is truly crummy that some of you on this board would be so silly as to attempt to match the stature of Arafat with that of your man Ojukwu, who is really a local champion of a narrow cause. That type of shameless hyperbole is the reason you guys are not taken seriously.
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Perhaps, if you are addressing me in particular, you would do well to stop using terms like “some of you on this board”, or “you guys”. You give the impression that you are addressing a larger crowd, and if you know anything about me, you know that I would not like to claim credit for others’ statements.
First of all, if I may refresh your memory, YOU were the one that first inserted Ikemba/Ojukwu’s name into the discussion. Scroll up and verify that for yourself. That renders your accusations void. It is a favorite tactic of yours, and permit me to say that I know that you really believe Ojukwu to be a terrorist. That is your prerogative, and you haven’t seen me try to preach Ojukwu or his admirable qualities to you in particular. You are perfectly free to hold whatever opinion you have of Ojukwu. That really, is your cup of tea.
quote: You still don't get it. Arafat is one of the most important world leaders. He is a statesman, and the world recognized him as such by awarding him the Nobel Prize for Peace. Yes, Arafat is both both a man of war and a man of peace. He waged war, and he decided later to follow the path of peace. To call Arafat a terrorist is to display ignorance of the worst kind;
Here, it seems as if you are trying to change my opinion regarding Arafat. Well. Permit me to tell you that you should try harder. This certainly changes nothing. You have not begun to scrape the tip of the iceberg with this submission. Maybe, if you tried a bit harder, you could get me to believe in all these virtues that you see in Arafat.
For the avoidance of all doubt, I still maintain that Arafat’s life has been that of constant battle against the Jews using despicable terrorist methods. And on some occasions when this man could have really helped to pave the way for some kind of peace between Isarelis and Palestinians, he has unfortunately been an obstructionist. In his twilight years, when he could no longer physically carry out acts of terror, this monumental symbol of dormancy began to embrace and cuddle younger terrorists and sanction their cowardly acts. That he was awarded a Nobel peace prize is of no value to me, because, as time progressed, the world has seen that he was truly no man of peace. If you don’t know the type of life that Arafat has led up to this point, go do the necessary research. I am not about to split hairs over whether Arafat has practiced or condoned terror.
For about 40 years, this man single-handedly, stood on the aspirations of the Palestinian people even though the Palestinians do not know it yet. And believe me, much as Sharon hates Arafat, he would not like Arafat dead or gone anytime soon. This is because, other moderate Palestinians like Abbas or Qureia, who would undoubtedly be willing to make changes and agree to certain terms which Arafat has refused, would appear on the scene. Their willingness to go ahead with Bush’s Road Map may put Sharon in an uncomfortable position and force him (Sharon) to return to the negotiation table. And I am sure you know that Sharon is not in any hurry to make any concessions or change the status quo. If the Palestinian Liberation Organization gets these moderate leaders and forswears the use of terrorism as a tool, unlike the rabid terrorist called Yasser Arafat, Bush may be denied of any reason for relegating the Mideast stalemate to the background. This could precipitate some mild clashes between this Administration and Sharon or the hardliners in the Jewish Knesset. That is, unless of course, Hamas or the Fattah extremists find a way of doing something quite idiotic and giving Bush every reason to drop the whole Israeli-Palestinian stalemate from his list of priorities once more. He has a lot on his plate as it is, and I imagine that since he has not spared anything in his bold and rugged actions to protect the American homeland from terrorists (in his own imagination), he is not about to hinder Sharon from taking any action to protect the Jews from the apostles of terror.
quote: It is truly crummy that some of you on this board would be so silly as to attempt to match the stature of Arafat with that of your man Ojukwu, who is really a local champion of a narrow cause. That type of shameless hyperbole is the reason you guys are not taken seriously.
As I told you before, you were the one that inserted Ojukwu’s name into the discussion. Secondly, since it seems as if you were merely dropping a bait here, or rather that you were addressing a wider audience, then permit me to say this is not worthy of any response from me. Have a good day.
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Isn’t Arafat a Common thief who has been diverting the money donated to his people into a Swiss account? What is with Moslems that makes them steal public money? In Nigeria, we have them all from Saduana through Babangida, Abubakar his cousin, Abacha, Shagari, that Transport minister from NPN forgot his name, Abiola, etc, etc
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quote:Perhaps, if you are addressing me in particular, you would do well to stop using terms like “some of you on this board”, or “you guys”. You give the impression that you are addressing a larger crowd, and if you know anything about me, you know that I would not like to claim credit for others’ statements.
Alhaji:
When you get the impression that I am addressing a larger crowd, that is because I am, even though you are the chief Alhaji in the crowd. Thus, people like the rude MeBiafran, and Njiko Umigbo are included in the "some of you" and "you guys" references. Not to worry. When you are the sole (su)(o)bject of my address, you will know and there should be no confusion in your mind.
Now, you seem to have your history backwards. Abu Amar (Yaser Arafat) achieved a lot for his people. Unlike your Ojukwu who did not know how to fight a superior military force, Arafat knew how to fight a state like Israel that enjoys the full backing of the US. That is why Arafat has kept Israel in a state of war for 40-years after the conventional Israeli-Arab battles ended. For Arafat, it was not in the cards that he, a war leader, should escape to Ivory Coast (so to say) and tell his Effiong to surrender to Israel. If you think that control of Palestine and its negotiations with Israel should be handed over to the people you call "moderates," why are so many of you on this board complaining that Obasanjo is working with Igbo moderates like Ukpabi Asika, Arthur Nzeribe, Emeka Offor, Alex Ekwueme, Chris Ubah, and Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu?
It does not really matter who brought Ojukwu into this particular discussion as long it is appropriate to bring him in. My point to you and others who admire Ojukwu is that Arafat is a terrorist if and only if Ojukwu is a terrorist. Ojukwu wanted to be to Biafra what Arafat is to Palestine. Note that I said "Ojukwu wanted to be;" he did not succeed, not even in a limited way. Arafat has been more successful. That should address your concerns expressed here:
quote:I know that you really believe Ojukwu to be a terrorist. That is your prerogative, and you haven’t seen me try to preach Ojukwu or his admirable qualities to you in particular.
If you think that the killing of unarmed civilians is the only thing that makes a group terroristic, then the US and Israel are the biggest terrorists in the world today because they have killed more unarmed civilians than the PLO, Al-Qaeda, and all the terrorists in the world combined.
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For starters, it will amount to the ultimate insult for me to extend politeness to any, I mean any awusa idiot. This includes both those living and dead like the hopeless sarduana of sokoto. I guess you are still the only ass who does not see how amiable I communicate with my Igbo brothers in the house. They deserve it and more. I mean to be treated with respect our disagreements at times notwithstanding. Your insults on Odumegwu-Ojukwu, a man whose influence and accomplishments beat all the awusa that have passed through the face of the planet do not go unnoticed. Alika/Lizard like you want respect whence you don't show none to your elders. Just don't pray we run into each other one of these days. It will be a new and ugly one for you. Monkey!!
Until you answer these questions below you and your father arafat the terrorist can kiss my YASH, your daily staple back in the day. Tabuta, Dankwuiya and kwuni-kwuni swallowing moron. Again, only a fool like Daud does not realize that when it comes to warfare the Israelis employ the most humanitarian means possible unlike you mohammed terror loving idiots. Who blow away school quarters, market places, hospitals etc. Are you gonna deny that if you arab fools are as powerful as Israel you wouldn’t have deployed your cowardly attacks on innocent observers? Not long ago when the Israelis decided they have had enough of the unkempt smelly fool you call arafat, I can still see him crying and whining for International help to stop the Israeli advancement then. I knew then the guy is a shrook. What happened to the virgins and martyr BS?
Now the questions your eloquent silence won’t put away.
Who are the Palestinians?
What is their history?
Where did they come from?
How did they arrive in the country they call Palestine?
Who are these people who claim the Holy Land as their own?
To the Honorable gentleman, Anaedo of course please help to solicit answers from this awusa ota nama boy. I never knew there did come a time I did be in same room with onye akpirikpa nama aaa!
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Nobody here really think you deserve any respect more than a piece of tissue paper in the toilet.Simply because you scribblings here and monumental insult to even your father`s elder gives you away as the son of a prostitute with no father figure in your life to teach you morals.
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Now, that Suha Arafat has received her promise of financial suport for the rest of her life, maybe the Palestinians will finally reveal to the world that Arafat is for all intents and purposes, dead. It is sad that Arafat's last days were not spared from the Palestinian penchant for double dealing and blackmail.
The article below is from DEBKAfile, an Israeli internet publication. Enjoy!
Tuesday, November 11, Suha Arafat’s French lawyers and former Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), struck a deal. It fixed the Palestinian Authority’s financial obligations to Yasser Arafat’s widow and let him finally die unambiguously and in peace at the end of a morbid tug of war between his wife and Palestinian Authority leaders.
But this did not happen immediately. The confusion surrounding Arafat’s condition for eleven days – officially alive, unofficially dead – was to be sustained a little longer – mainly to save Mrs Arafat’s face.
The settlement allowed a funeral to be arranged on “Orphan Friday” of Ramadan, November 12 (as DEBKAfile reported earlier) – unless a new crisis pops up. Our sources have seen some of the principle terms of the Palestinian accord with Suha Arafat.
1. This clause has already taken place. Before the Palestinian delegation which visited the hospital left Paris, foreign minister Nabil Shaath again assured the media that Arafat is still alive and “his brain, heart and lungs are still functioning.” This was necessary to prove Suha Arafat had not lied when she appeared that morning live on Arabic TV Al Jazeera to accuse those same officials of conspiring to bury her husband alive. The deal provided for the announcement of Arafat’s death to be held back for late Tuesday night or Wednesday, November 10.
2. The widow will attend the funeral. Abu Mazen insisted on her following the Palestinian leader’s bier for the sake of appearances.
3. Last July, Arafat sent his wife $11 million to cover her living expenses and those of their daughter for six months - $1.8 million per month. The new accord guarantees her the same allowance from the Palestinian Authority as a regular annual remittance, i.e. $22 million per annum, for the rest of her life. Abu Mazen and prime minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) signed on the dotted line, although they have no notion how the penniless Palestinian Authority faced with a people in dire poverty can possibly stump up this kind of money.
DEBKAfile’s Paris sources offer an exclusive peek at Suha Arafat’s lifestyle in the French capital. She owns a smart villa on one of the most elegantly affluent streets in the world, Rue Fauborg St. Honore, while also maintaining a lavish private suite at the five-star Hotel Le Bristol, which after a multimillion dollar refurbishment claims to outclass the Paris Ritz, the Four Seasons and even George V. The upkeep of the Bristol suite she maintains for “business” was included in her widow’s “pension.”
After the Palestinian officials settled with Arafat’s wife, Shaat went before the media to admit that Arafat had been in a deep coma since last Wednesday, November 3, meaning that all the Palestinian communiqués since then, describing him laughing with doctors, reading the Koran etc., were arrant falsehoods. He ruled out poisoning and cancer as the causes of Arafat’s illness and laid the blame for his “digestive disorders” on - who else? Israel, whose army had besieged Arafat’s quarters and forced the 75-year old leader to subsist on too little oxygen and in poor sanitary conditions.
Some facts might shed some light on this point.
For three and a half years, since Israeli troops withdrew from Arafat’s headquarters and private apartment at the end of the 2002 Defensive Shield operation, Palestinians have been building, remodeling and refurbishing the ”battered” seat of Palestinian government tirelessly and undisturbed. No one stopped Arafat from moving into any part of his spanking new compound at any time. He could have ordered bathrooms made of the finest Italian marble whenever he wanted. He was not short of funds; witness the generous allowance he made his absent wife. No one would have prevented him going out for a stroll in Ramallah, taking the air in its parks or dining in its restaurants. Arafat chose to confine himself to two wretched rooms to show the world how badly Israel was treating him and win the world’s sympathy.
For the same reason, he ordered the Palestinians to leave the shell pocks in the walls of his quarters unrepaired, just as the late Syrian President Hafez Assad left the Golan town of Kuneitra in ruins as a sort of theme park for displaying Israel’s alleged misdeeds to tourists.
Arafat did emerge once for a “state” visit to the West Bank town of Jenin. His welcome there was far short of expectations and he never tried any such visits again. With a multi-billion fortune at his disposal, Arafat invariably appeared in public in grubby, crumpled khakis – mainly because the aides who served him and his finely tailored associates were not overly concerned with his welfare.
The funeral plans as they stand at this moment are as follows:
On Friday, November 12, Arafat will be buried at the Ramallah headquarters he lived in. So far, the Palestinians have not applied to Egypt or Jordan to permit a stopover for the coffin in Cairo or Amman, whence it will be flow by helicopter to Ramallah. One of these requests will probably be received Wednesday or Thursday. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak made it clear this week that no formal ceremonies would be allowed in his capital; the coffin would be placed simply at Arab League Headquarters in Cairo.
Both Abu Mazen and Abu Ala, anxious to avoid calling on Israel for assistance in dealing with the Arab VIPs expected for the funeral, hope they can be accommodated in A
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