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Arafat Funeral

by John Cole|  November 12, 20046:14 pm| 18 Comments

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Let me just say a few things about the Arafat funeral:

1.) It absolutely sickens me to hear foreign dignitaries honoring this swine. Jimmy Carter is a national embarassment.

2.) If, after watching the over-wrought mourning in Ramallah, I describe the Palestinians as animals, no doubt some jackass will call me a racist. Let me thus observe that their behavior is animalistic. And these people want a country…

3.) Unfortunately, the youth did not catch the irony in this chant:

“Our blood, our souls, we sacrifice for you, Yasser Arafat.”

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  1. 1.

    Kathy K

    November 12, 2004 at 7:04 pm

    Sacrifice their souls? If I recall my Judeo/Christian/Islamic mythology, the only creatures who require people to sacrifice their souls are the denizens of Hell. Appropriate chant, methinks.

  2. 2.

    CadillaqJaq

    November 12, 2004 at 7:40 pm

    I posted the following previously in response to one of John’s columns. It fits here just as well.

    “Back to Arafat for a moment: watching the TVd reports from Ramallah when the chopper arrived carrying Ararfat’s body, my mind compared that unbelievable scene with that of the citizenry visiting the rotunda following Ronald Reagan’s death.

    Then I had another thought; that of Israel’s “restraint” for not turning that entire mob scene into a rerun of the “grease-spot” left in the street when they took out the nasty little wheelchair bound cleric earlier.

    I guess they were trying to ‘be a little more sensitive.'”

    Recalling the mob scene as shown today on TV, I sincerely wonder how in hell anyone thinks one can conduct serious diplomatic relations with that bunch.

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    No name

    November 12, 2004 at 8:03 pm

    Sad but true. They behave like animals. No wonder Israel put a fence to keep them out.

  4. 4.

    Bloggerhead

    November 12, 2004 at 8:30 pm

    And here I’ve been led to believe that it is only “leftists” who adhere to the notion that you can’t bring democracy to “brown folks.”

    What I’ve principally gleaned from the Arafat wake is that this is a land where the NRA should thrive.

  5. 5.

    Solomon

    November 12, 2004 at 9:09 pm

    Mourning is emotional. And in a crowd, that emotion just escalates. I been to funerals here in the US where otherwise “civilized” folks get caught up in the moment and just lose it. Animals or animalistic? Same thing. Heck we’re all animals. So you being a racist for using that term is stupid (and I’m black).

    But I think it’s wrong to assume that they can’t run a country all because the way they mourned. If you were from outer space and looked at our football events, you may make the assumption that Humans can’t do anything but scream, eat/drink excessively, while watching other humasn bash the crap out of each other. Hardly the truth.

  6. 6.

    Dorian

    November 12, 2004 at 9:36 pm

    Carter has to do something to help prop up the Nobel Peace Prize he and Arafat share.

  7. 7.

    Guy

    November 12, 2004 at 9:48 pm

    If it was only the way they mourn that was uncivilized I would give it to them.
    But it

  8. 8.

    S.W. Anderson

    November 13, 2004 at 12:50 am

    Have you ever heard an Asian woman, especially Japanese, who’s in labor or giving birth? If not, you’d be amazed. They tend to groan, shrief and wail

  9. 9.

    Carpbasman

    November 13, 2004 at 4:44 am

    Ever been to dead Elvis week in Memphis? Especially on a significant aniversary?

  10. 10.

    Joe Schmoe

    November 13, 2004 at 8:45 am

    I don’t seem to remember any Elvis songs calling for the extermination of the Jews. I guess it’s a cultural thing.

  11. 11.

    Toren

    November 13, 2004 at 11:48 am

    Buggerhead:
    The NRA is firmly for SAFE use of firearms.
    Now piss off.

  12. 12.

    M. Scott Eiland

    November 13, 2004 at 4:18 pm

    “Our blood, our souls, we sacrifice for you, Yasser Arafat.”

    Sounds like Michael Moorcock has been moonlighting as a Palestinian gibberish writer.

  13. 13.

    Kimmitt

    November 14, 2004 at 2:45 am

    Nah, it’s just a jumped-up version of the Bush Pledge.

  14. 14.

    Harry in Atlanta

    November 14, 2004 at 10:07 am

    What we were seeing was the result of mass brainwashing and a cult of personality worship. Arafat was a lousy leader but he didn’t care because for Arafat it was all about Arafat. We will see the same type of behavior when Castro and Kim Il Jung die. The stupid Palestinians truly believe Arafat had their interest at heart and felt their pain. Kind of reminds me of when Bill Clinton was caught getting his knob polished by that fat girl in his office and he lied to anybody that would listen. What ‘ol Bill needed was a diversion from his behavior so he made Ken Starr and the Republicans out to be intolerant right-wing bigoted religious haters and his sycophants just slurped it up. Even some professional women among his minions publically stated that they too would polish the first knob. Geraldo Riveria said he believed that the executive officer of the United States should have this service in order to reduce his tension and prevent him from acting aggressively; as if Bill Clinton would ever act aggressively toward anyone who would shoot back without first taking a poll. This is essentially what Arafat did, he needed Israel as the bad guy to divert attention and scrutiny from his own criminal and incompetent behavior and he, like Bill, was a master at projecting blame and turning the onus onto others. And just like Bill’s Arafat’s syncophants slurped it up too. One thing that makes the comparison of the two so fascinating is that during both their tenures neither Arafat nor Clinton achieved relatively very much, they were just great salesmen with adoring legions of believers who would eat shit if they were told it was free. And Clinton didn’t kill no way near as many people to divert attention, he mainly killed camels and tents and the occaisional aspirin factory night watchman.

    As for the NRA being big with Arafat crowd…I very much doubt it. Since most Palestinians, if not all, could afford the dues and then probably only a handful can read enough in order to understand the bylaws. So much for Arafat’s economic and education legacies.

  15. 15.

    wild bird

    November 15, 2004 at 11:05 am

    Its so unfortunate that they pay hommage to a known terrorist its just like the bleedinghearts who lite candles and sit around a prison where a cold blooded child killer is set to be exicuted for his hideious crimes and they want to have the exicution postoined or stopped the sockining part is they never ever consiter the victims of their crimes

  16. 16.

    John Cunningham

    November 15, 2004 at 6:41 pm

    The Paleoswinians are in the grip of a death cult. Their leaders should be systematically killed, they should be driven into the desert east of the Jordan, and confined in reeducation camps until a new generation is reared with a minimum amount of human decency.

  17. 17.

    SAO

    November 15, 2004 at 9:52 pm

    The Jews are in the grip of a death cult. Their leaders should be systematically killed, they should be driven into the desert east of the Jordan, and confined in reeducation camps until a new generation is reared with a minimum amount of human decency.

  18. 18.

    SDN

    November 16, 2004 at 3:44 am

    Some Asshole Online:

    Already been tried, repeatedly, to the point that half the Jewish holidays revolve around “They tried to kill us, they didn’t manage, let’s eat.” Sorry to disappoint you.

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