Tim Blair

There's something disturbing in the SMH article you linked to. The mourners "lining the roads" were said to be shouting 'From Paris to Jerusalem, we are all Palestinians'.

Isn't this the same country whose most prominant newspaper ran a 12th September front page claiming that 'We are all Americans'?

The latest incarnation seems to be closer to the truth, though the frogs sure seem confused about who they actaully are.

Hope your grandmother is OK, Tim.

Say what you like about Yasser, he always had a spare pen.

I hope your grandmother is improving, tim. But I have to say, she sounds sharper than most of the world leaders today.

God bless your grandmother and thank her for the smile! Most folks these days don't have a knack for gentle "dry" humor.

Re the P.M. not attending the funeral, I'm reminded of a scene in "Apocalypse Now" where Willard talks about being "sick of lies". Well, it would be a lie for Howard to attend and personally I applaud him for not indulging in such hypocrisy (not that he isn't guilty of it on other occasions!)

News Flash: the funeral arrangements have been changed.

Ah, the kindness of Yasser....let's ask a Lebanese Maronite Christian or Druze about that.

And best wishes to your Grandmother, Tim.

I thought Ali Kazak showed a lot of restraint. He really could have blown up over it, you know.

Best to your grandmother. I think she put Mr. Arafat in the proper perspective.

"Really? I wonder who'll get his tea-towel."

Tell Grandma she's gotten some chuckles from a Yank who wishes her the best!

"Yasser Arafat's body arrived in Egypt today as authorities prepared for a strictly controlled and brief military funeral where dignitaries from around the world would pay their respects."

Target rich environment? Hmmm . . . OK, just wishful thinking. The only way we'd get away with it is if a Palestinian suicide bomber did it, which would of course be a fitting send-off, eh?

Best wishes to your grandmother, Tim. I hope she gets well soon.

Tim, would you say you're from a long line of smart alecks?

Does anyone know anything about the rumours that Arafat died of aids?

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/11/110104arafat.htm

For that matter, its talked about here as well http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/4348.htm

Let them demand an inquiry into his death if they think he was poisioned. I think Israel would love the truth about his illness to get out. The PA is really trying to hide something.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/11/news/health.html

Read the Grandma link, my nanna died on 23 Jan 2003 aged 93 (born on 4 August 1909), she dozed off on the lounge in front of the telly after having a cappuccino with Mum at the local shopping centre, her daily outing. I had so many interesting conversations with her about how the world was when she was young and how it was later. No television. The radio was always called "the wireless", toilet was "the lavatory", she was pretty sharp, although deafness had made things a bit difficult for her.
I could just hear my nanna say something about the tea towel, and it gave me a chuckle to hear what your grandma said.
Hope she's chipper soon!

Its the most likely scenario, Arafat was known as a homosexual that roared 'like a tiger' and all his medical symptoms tally. Plus the absurd secrecy, rushing off to France to be feted by Chirac.

I'd be staying away from the tea towel - AIDS is a WMD.

My God this is turning out to be a good couple of weeks. First, The Despondency of the Moonbats™, a Schadenfreudefest of impotent grizzling and foot-stamping by people who should be wedgied half-hourly for the rest of their pitiful lives, and now this: Arafat croaks ignominiously in a Frog hospital. Plus I'm off to the beach tomorrow with mates to get drunk for three days. The weather's just turned and we're looking at five months of sunshine. Next thing I know I'll be kidnapped by Salma Hayek and forced to be her filthy love-slave aboard her own personal floating brewery.

Tim Blair — yes, theses people do indeed deserve statehood... I say we give them Massachusetts...

Oh, and Best Wishes to your grandmother. She sounds like a lady after my own heart.

Tim:
All the best to your gran.

Jim Treacher:
Next time, give a keyboard/drink warning first, OK?

Too bad Arafat wasn't delivered to Egypt as the payload on one of those Korean Long Dong missles or whatever they're called.

The latest incarnation seems to be closer to the truth, though the frogs sure seem confused about who they actaully are.

Can you blame them? I mean, would you want to be French?

(Sorry, somebody had to say it.)

Tim, best wishes to your grandmother.

Best wishes to your grandmother Tim.

The ABC (Australia) had a 15 minute 'tribute' to Arafat this morning. It almost made me puke.

Looks like the silent majority disagrees with the chattering classes again: the poll on news.com.au has him a terrorist over a freedom fighter at 60 to 40%. Vote or die!

All the best to your gran.

I say we give them Massachusetts...

Richard, if we give them Taxachussetts (not a bad idea), the first thing that happens is we saw the state loose from the North American continent, tow it out into the middle of the Atlantic, and nail it down out there.

Then move the PA there. And not before.

Today is the day to remember the Slaughtered Children of Ma'alot, Israel's Beslan and part of the long forgotten hideous work of ARAFAt.

Ehud Olmert recalls

In 1974, as a newly elected Knesset member, I watched the terrorist assault on a school in Ma'alot as it played out along Israel's northern border. Palestinian gunmen, ironically from a PLO faction funded by the Russians, infiltrated a high school and took dozens of students hostage. Before the army could free the children, the terrorists managed to kill 26 of them. At the time, the idea that a ruthless terrorist could deliberately murder Israeli children seemed almost beyond even our belief. What sort of desperate animals, we demanded, seek to advance their political agendas by slaughtering children? Surely the international order would insist that all the culprits be hunted down and punished.

But the world voiced only silence, and business went on as usual. Israelis were forced to learn that our tragedies were always going to be personal affairs, and that there would be no united international response to terror. Indeed, the democratic states in Europe provided the first cracks in the front, insisting on maintaining relations with the PLO after Ma'alot while accepting that there were no real consequences when it comes to Arab terror."

Israelis were forced to learn that our tragedies were always going to be personal affairs, and that there would be no united international response to terror.

And now America after 911, has learnt the same lessons as the world sends its creme de la creme to this scum's funeral, headed by the likes of Jacque Chirac.

In a just world, John Howard would get a Nobel peace prize for boycotting that cockroach's funeral, and instead of lowering their flag half mast, the UN would have commerorated Arafat's death by honking horns and passing out candy.

The cavalcade of 'dignitaries' lining up to shed crocodile tears at Arafat's demise puts me in mind of Eamon de Valera's signing of the book of condolences after Hitler killed himself, hardly an episode when the infant Republic of Ireland covered itself in glory.

David Gillies
And why will I not be surprised if the IRA are well represented at the funeral?
perhaps the one occasion when the presence of a suicide bomber would prove an ironic conclusion to a life that has caused so much pain and suffering.

The Real Jeff S — I've often fantasized about having the Nimitz tow Manhattan out into the Gulf Stream and letting it drift off to Belgium where it belongs, but that's just whimsical. Besides, if we cut Massachusetts free after we give it to the Palestinians, how are the libertarians gonna shoot at them after they take over New Hampshire?

Those sick Arab propagandists have brainwashed the Palestinian hordes into believing Arafat was poisoned or assassinated by Israel.

I can't wait for the spread of freedom, liberal institutions, communications and of course the blogosphere, to reach the Arab world.

Davo — The real irony would be if the funeral was interrupted by a large charge of RDX...

I feel compelled to point out that even if Johnny _were_ at the funeral, he would not be "among the many heads of state at President Yasser Arafat's funeral. " Johnny's a head of government, not a head of state. The head of state is either Mike or Liz, depending on your interpretation of the constitution.

On second thoughts, if I may nitpick my own nitpicking, stating that he is among the heads of state doesn't necessarily imply that he's a head of state. If he were tiptoeing among the tulips, that wouldn't imply that he were a tulip.

Never mind, carry on.

Funny line on the Dennis Miller show two nights ago, "It seems Yasser Arafat's wife Suha was unable to recognize her husband at first because the French nurses had given him a bath."

Jorge, just what are you drinking? I'd like some myself.

Richard, don't you understand ballistics? And there are all those surplus ICBMs, and surely some cruise missiles that nearing the end of their shelf life......

Jorge, you the same Jorge of USYD VSU fame?

Harry: a bath? In France?

Those sick Arab propagandists have brainwashed the Palestinian hordes into believing Arafat was poisoned or assassinated by Israel.

Actually, Jono, it could have been Keith Olbermann spreading the rumor...

Gee 11 November, Remberance day.

The end of a war
Whitlam gets sacked
Arafat croaks

I think I will celebrate this with a lottery ticket.

Yes a large charge of RDX would clear out in one fell swoop a large concentrated section of the dregs of humanity and would bring some last second worth to arafat's life

KOfi Annan's remarks at the UN.(ipso facto)
the best thing the palestinian people can do to honour him is to make his dream of peace a reality!!!!
WHOA. No wonder he's head of the UN!

Yes once again after the first prize for the Adolf Hitler condoleances, Ireland WINS AGAIN !
eat your heart out Hamas Helen!

With the exception of John Howard, the rest of the world's leaders proved, by their comments, to be; a) complete idiots, or, b) craven cowards. In some cases, (Jacques Chirac comes to mind) both apply.

But Irish President Mary McAleese topped even Jacques Chirac, saying in a statement that, "President Arafat has been a key figure in the efforts to bring about a peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict on the basis of two states living in peace within secure and agreed borders.”

Completely abandoning reality, she reinvented the bloodstained terrorist on the fly, saying, “His passing is a tragic loss to the Palestinian people for whom he has been a unifying figure for decades.”

he died with a frog in his throat

You mongrel, youbet!
Coffee just came out my nose!

For some reason, I can't get the tune, "Ding Dong, the witch is dead.... But it really doesn't fit here, and somehow, Ding Dong the insignificant is dead..." just doesn't have the same ring too it. I must have more coffee...

Knowing the 'Palestinian' fascination with body parts I thought it would be a lovely gesture if the Chairman's body were to be chopped up into thousands of pieces - to be given away in specially marked cans of dog food.

Will they have a 21 suicide bomber salute at his funeral? :)
A question I saw asked on a British message board today.

Every intelligence service in the world knows Arafat died of AIDS. That is why he was treated at France's No. 1 AIDS hospital. That is still a crime in Arab lands, but it will come out soon.

Actually, homsexuality is rampant among Arabs but AIDS is considered a sin.

SBS News continued its grovelling with nearly all of tonight's 9:30 news dedicated to Arafat's life and his funeral. Robert Fisk was a guest star - being interviewed over his thoughts on the funeral and the future of "peace" in the Middle East by Anton Enis.

Contrast all of this with the amount of time they dedicated to the death of Ronald Reagan earlier this year. "Balanced" and "unbiased" my arse, SBS!

SBS News continued its grovelling with nearly all of tonight's 9:30 news dedicated to Arafat's life and his funeral. Robert Fisk was a guest star - being interviewed over his thoughts on the funeral and the future of "peace" in the Middle East by Anton Enis.

Contrast all of this with the amount of time they dedicated to the death of Ronald Reagan earlier this year. "Balanced" and "unbiased" my arse, SBS!

The Israeli's should allow him to be buried in Jerusalem. They should also promise (with all the sincerity of a Palestinian in Oslo) not to dig him up, shoot him in the head, wrap him in pigskin, and shoot him out of circus cannon into the Mediterranean.

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Suckas!!!

Richard
was absolutely gobsmacked when Fiasko actually suggested that arafat was a despotic dictator !!! Surely he is way past doing a Cristopher Hitchens.

40 Days of mourning?...Surely..its 40 days of fasting.?

40 days of feasting.

So November 11 is now a Jewish holiday. "He tried to kill us. He failed. Let's eat."

If the Palestinian Arabs had the brains God gave an oyster they would take this as an opportunity to clean out the whole rotten mess of the PA and its attendant terrorist groups. If they want a state or a life they would. Sadly, I think they want neither. They will be content to live in squalor and under tyrannical oppression, just so long as they can continue to kill the Jews.