Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe doesn’t mince words in an editorial that discusses Arafat’s true legacy, as opposed to the nonsense we’re hearing from most media outlets about his “dreams of peace” and his symbolic heroism:
YASSER ARAFAT is dying at age 75, lying in bed surrounded by familiar faces. He will leave this world peacefully, unlike the thousands of victims he sent to early graves.
In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were hanged at Nuremberg. In a better world, the French president would not have paid a visit to the bedside of such a monster. In a better world, George Bush would not have said, on hearing the first reports that Arafat had died, “God bless his soul.”
God bless his soul? What a grotesque idea! Bless the soul of the man who brought modern terrorism to the world? Who sent his agents to slaughter athletes at the Olympics, blow airliners out of the sky, bomb schools and pizzerias, machine-gun passengers in airline terminals? Who lied, cheated, and stole without compunction? Who inculcated the vilest culture of Jew-hatred since the Third Reich? Human beings might stoop to bless a creature so evil — as indeed Arafat was blessed, with money, deference, even a Nobel Prize — but God, I am quite sure, will damn him for eternity.
Yesss! He’s DEAD!!
Finally a story arafat can’t lie his way out of
yes I am dead. now i am in paradise with my 72 virgins. and hey… they even provide me with internet access.