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2004-11-04 Israel-Palestine
Yasser Arafat is mostly dead
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Posted by Lux 2004-11-04 11:23:42 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11145 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Additional info : he's brain dead (no snickering...)
Posted by Lux 2004-11-04 11:25:16 AM||   2004-11-04 11:25:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll be the first, how can they tell the difference?
Posted by Steve  2004-11-04 11:31:18 AM||   2004-11-04 11:31:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Not from the smell...
Posted by tu3031 2004-11-04 11:33:59 AM||   2004-11-04 11:33:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 here is em link.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-11-04 11:41:42 AM|| [http://compassionatelizards.blogspot.com/]  2004-11-04 11:41:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Chirac had just visited him in hospital. Who's scripting events at the moment? Shakespeare would be proud of this stuff.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-11-04 11:43:17 AM||   2004-11-04 11:43:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Jerusalem Post has the same info - says the Israelis are prepared. Lockdown time in the territories. Civil War in 5....4...3....
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-04 11:44:23 AM||   2004-11-04 11:44:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 thisn beter not be nother false alert. that kinda stuff is give blue balls to my emotions.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-11-04 11:46:35 AM|| [http://compassionatelizards.blogspot.com/]  2004-11-04 11:46:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 KFI radio (Los Angeles) has the same - sez the confirmation came from the PM of Luxembourg
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-04 11:46:58 AM||   2004-11-04 11:46:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 It's on Drudge now as well.
Posted by AzCat 2004-11-04 11:47:54 AM||   2004-11-04 11:47:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hospital denies the claim... yet
Posted by True German Ally 2004-11-04 11:49:56 AM||   2004-11-04 11:49:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Bush wins and Arafish croaks.
The LLLs are going to think they've died and gone to hell.

Now, if only Mike Al-Moor would have a heart attack and squash Robert Fisk when he falls over.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-04 11:50:24 AM||   2004-11-04 11:50:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 more
Posted by muck4doo 2004-11-04 11:51:48 AM|| [http://compassionatelizards.blogspot.com/]  2004-11-04 11:51:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the French hospital is practicing sophistry, they said he was not dead, but they didn't say he wasn't brain dead.
Posted by Lux 2004-11-04 11:52:50 AM||   2004-11-04 11:52:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 

Never forget, never forgive.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-04 11:53:25 AM||   2004-11-04 11:53:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 ulululu?
Posted by Seafarious  2004-11-04 11:56:06 AM||   2004-11-04 11:56:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 I hope that lady in particular is collateral damage as well as all the others celebrating on 9/11. Never Forgive. Never Forget
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-04 11:57:12 AM||   2004-11-04 11:57:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Never again, never again!
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-04 11:57:21 AM||   2004-11-04 11:57:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 ... they didn't say he wasn't brain dead.

Remember: you're not really dead till the soul slips its mortal coil. I think in Arafat's case that was some time in the late '50s.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-11-04 11:59:04 AM||   2004-11-04 11:59:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 See Ya' Yasser !!

Hope you get a misserable spot on the barbeque spit of eternity!!
Posted by TomAnon 2004-11-04 11:59:30 AM||   2004-11-04 11:59:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 Increase power to the Zionist Death Rays! Or are we out of range??
Posted by Rafael 2004-11-04 12:05:22 PM||   2004-11-04 12:05:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 May flocks of demons accompany you to your rest.

May bees pee upon him.

He will not be missed (by the civilized world, that is....)
Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-11-04 12:07:30 PM||   2004-11-04 12:07:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 ... Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority, may have died of a heart attack.

Generally speaking, and I'm no doctor, but I think one is required to actually have a heart to suffer a heart attack.
Posted by Dripping Sarcasm 2004-11-04 12:17:27 PM||   2004-11-04 12:17:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 with apologies to Monty Python

Praline: Never mind that my lad, I wish to complain about this terrorist that I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.

Shopkeeper: Oh yes, the Palestinian. What's wrong with it?

Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.

Shopkeeper: No, no it's resting, look!

Praline: Look my lad, I know a dead terrorist when I see one and I'm looking at one right now.

Shopkeeper: No, no sir, it's not dead. It's resting.

Praline: Resting?

Shopkeeper: Yeah, remarkable terrorist the Palestinian, beautiful towel on its head too.

Praline: The towel don't enter into it -- it's stone dead.

Shopkeeper: No, no -- it's just resting.

Praline: All right then, if it's resting I'll wake it up. (shouts into cage) Hello Yassir! I've got a nice billion for you when you wake up, Yassir, Yassir!

Shopkeeper: (jogging cage) There it moved.

Praline: No he didn't. That was you pushing the cage.

Shopkeeper: I did not.

Praline: Yes, you did. (takes terrorist out of cage, shouts) Hello Yassir, Yassir (bangs it against counter) wake up. (throws it in the air and lets it fall to the floor) Now that's what I call a dead terrorist.

Shopkeeper: No, no it's stunned.

Praline: Look my lad, I've had just about enough of this. That terrorist is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk.

Shopkeeper: It's probably pining for the fjords.

Praline: Pining for the fjords, what kind of talk is that? Look, why did it fall flat on its back the moment I got it home?

Shopkeeper: The Palestinian prefers kipping on its back. Beautiful bird, lovely towel.

Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that terrorist, and I discovered that the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.

Shopkeeper: Well of course it was nailed there. Otherwise it would muscle up to those bars and voom.

Posted by mhw 2004-11-04 12:23:53 PM||   2004-11-04 12:23:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Best. Week. Ever.
Posted by someone 2004-11-04 12:33:04 PM||   2004-11-04 12:33:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 #14

Never forget, never forgive.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy


aaahh so there is a reason for bhurkas after all ..
Posted by MacNails 2004-11-04 12:36:52 PM||   2004-11-04 12:36:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 FoRGeT THe ZIoNiST DeATHRaY! Can't you folks see it? This is the shock of the landslide second term for GWB that finally put the last nail in Arafish's coffin! Upon hearing the news, Yasser just couldn't stand it anymore, and passed away, painfully, one can hope.
See, how easy it was, getting rid of him? All you had to do was put your ballot in the box :).
Posted by Anonymous5089 2004-11-04 12:37:37 PM||   2004-11-04 12:37:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 So, with Moslem logic, the FRENCH murdered him! All Palestinians must now ATTACK FRANCE! (Well, it would be funny.)
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-11-04 12:40:54 PM||   2004-11-04 12:40:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 "He is still in the intensive care unit..." ...though dead as a doornail.
I'm convinced that we Bush voters can take credit for this. Glad to do my part.
Posted by Tom 2004-11-04 12:51:52 PM||   2004-11-04 12:51:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 ima passin out candys here at work. no one is know why tho. they are just think ima nice guy. :)
Posted by muck4doo 2004-11-04 12:52:39 PM|| [http://compassionatelizards.blogspot.com/]  2004-11-04 12:52:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 they are just think ima nice guy. :)


and they're right about that, Muck
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-04 12:54:21 PM||   2004-11-04 12:54:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 E-e-e-e-excellent, Smithers! Give the Chirac impersonator a cookie - then see that he's liquidated, and destroy the rest of the neurotoxin...
Posted by mojo  2004-11-04 1:02:44 PM||   2004-11-04 1:02:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 is it too much to hope for a mass uprising in iran now? just thinking that when it rains, it pours
Posted by lex 2004-11-04 1:08:37 PM||   2004-11-04 1:08:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 I'd be shocked if they buried him anywhere in the Middle East -- the Wahhabists would insist on an unmarked grave and the rest would insist on a shrine. Better just to shove him in the dirt somewhere in his spiritual home land, France.

Ya know, the opportunity to piss on his grave would be enough to get me to travel to Paris.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-11-04 1:29:53 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-11-04 1:29:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 Arafart's corpse on rotten.com anyone??? I look forward to it.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-04 1:53:54 PM||   2004-11-04 1:53:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Generalissimo-Francisco-Franco-is-still-dead
Posted by Prakk  2004-11-04 2:02:57 PM||   2004-11-04 2:02:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 Bomb-a-rama,

Why wait? There are pictures of dead pigs all over the internet.
Posted by Poison Reverse 2004-11-04 2:36:31 PM||   2004-11-04 2:36:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 This is like Stalin's death. They have to wait at least three days to make sure he's dead.
Posted by Rafael 2004-11-04 2:43:44 PM||   2004-11-04 2:43:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 What's next? Eternal flame.
Posted by Poison Reverse 2004-11-04 2:51:34 PM||   2004-11-04 2:51:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-04 2:55:12 PM||   2004-11-04 2:55:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 Don't Forget poor ol Israel - If that dirty filthy palestinian maggot is dead - Then Israel has a hell of a road ahead of it when the palestinian monkeys are told the news of Yassars death.

Israel should lock n load - Let The Riots Begin.......
Posted by Churt Snoluque1836 2004-11-04 3:09:19 PM||   2004-11-04 3:09:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 What are they going to do Churt? As far as I'm aware the Israelis have locked down the 'territories' and they certainly have contingency plans for when Arafat dies.
Posted by Tony (UK)  2004-11-04 3:18:05 PM||   2004-11-04 3:18:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 Wasn't that nice of him to wait until after the election?

Fred...you amazing man you, where did you find that picture of Suha singing?
Posted by 2b 2004-11-04 3:23:48 PM||   2004-11-04 3:23:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 Now you know why The Mossad order the Louisville Sluggers. They're on the lathe now. Five healthy zionist lads are standing by with sledgehammers.
Posted by Shipman 2004-11-04 3:27:48 PM||   2004-11-04 3:27:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 Death Ray passes first field test.
Posted by Mike  2004-11-04 3:34:30 PM||   2004-11-04 3:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 Any news Yet?? (just looking for a reason to have a nice drink)

Best analysis so-far: The rat is brain-dead but the body is being kept (technically) alive, so something can be worked out among his "heirs".
Posted by Heysenbergwashere 2004-11-04 3:45:50 PM||   2004-11-04 3:45:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/497284.html

updated 22:03 GMT+2
Posted by TomAnon 2004-11-04 4:37:00 PM||   2004-11-04 4:37:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 itn thursday. that shuld be reeson nuff for a drink. :)
Posted by muck4doo 2004-11-04 4:59:34 PM|| [http://compassionatelizards.blogspot.com/]  2004-11-04 4:59:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#48 I just saw Steve in the O Club. Maybe he'll buy you a beer...
Posted by Seafarious  2004-11-04 5:00:35 PM||   2004-11-04 5:00:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#49 A bit like Breshnev... keep the body warm until the KGB decides on the successor.
Posted by True German Ally 2004-11-04 5:03:39 PM||   2004-11-04 5:03:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#50 Thanks muck, Prosit!
Posted by Heysenbergwashere 2004-11-04 5:19:48 PM||   2004-11-04 5:19:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#51 Oooooohh Yeah!
Posted by Heysenbergwashere 2004-11-04 5:21:36 PM||   2004-11-04 5:21:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#52 Yasser: May you burn in hell.
Posted by badanov  2004-11-04 6:47:12 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-11-04 6:47:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#53 Death Rays are at maximum power! Cap'n, she can't take much more of this!
Posted by Rafael 2004-11-04 7:05:09 PM||   2004-11-04 7:05:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#54 I'm sure it was the shock of the election that did it. I submitted a story that didn't make it last night, where the gist of the article was that Arafat gained consiousness long enough to ask about the election results---and then his staff sent Bush a note of congratulations "on his behalf."

I can't ululate worth a darn, but I will go blast a couple of paintballs at the local Muslim Student Union billboards!
Posted by Anonymous6414 2004-11-04 9:01:09 PM||   2004-11-04 9:01:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#55 ..It gets better - according to the World Tribune, Yasser was the only guy who knew where the money was at and how to get at it:

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_10.html

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-11-04 9:12:00 PM||   2004-11-04 9:12:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#56 Is it just me, or has this been a pretty good week so far?
Posted by Beau 2004-11-04 9:13:23 PM||   2004-11-04 9:13:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#57 So whaddya figure Mike, will the lieutenants stop fighting, or fight on principles anyway? I figure they'll just fight because they're muslims.
Posted by Anonymous6414 2004-11-04 9:14:31 PM||   2004-11-04 9:14:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#58 Hey, why am I anonymous? (6414).

Definitely a great week, Beau. Could get better. Streisand could choke on a hair ball, M. Moore could get terminal gout, and moveon.org could find that the "hold harmless and indemnify" clauses in their contracts could bankrupt them without Soros' backing. But still a great week!
Posted by Asedwich  2004-11-04 9:18:38 PM||   2004-11-04 9:18:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#59 Just got in from the villages. I am at the Nome Joint Utilities project office and got on RB, pronto. I am hoping conformation of the Arafish going belly up will be until after 1030PM (0730Z). My ululator is at work. Man, what a week! Now the networks are still talking about the dems. I think that I will go down to the historic Board of Trade Saloon and have some brewskis. Life is good.

As for the Arafish, follow the money. Say hi to Quantrill for us, 'Fish. HA!
Posted by Alaska Paul at Nome, AK  2004-11-04 9:31:03 PM||   2004-11-04 9:31:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#60 "He was dead before he wasn't dead."
Posted by dushan 2004-11-04 9:45:10 PM||   2004-11-04 9:45:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#61 If they try and fly Arafat's rotting corpse back home, I can only hope that Israel has enough sense to blow the plane out of the sky over deep water. No shrine, no martyrdom, no coffin-swarm.

Rot in flaming hell, Arafat. The death and destruction you brought into this world could never be assuaged by your puny death. A thousand slow deaths could not even begin to atone for your evil. Rot in hell, you bastard.
Posted by Zenster 2004-11-04 10:24:27 PM||   2004-11-04 10:24:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#62 Not even an ounce of sympathy on this thread! Is there any one out there who will mourn the soul of Arafat? Is there no pity in the world?
Posted by smn 2004-11-04 10:47:08 PM||   2004-11-04 10:47:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#63 No point in mourning Yassir, smn. He's in Paradise with his 72 virgins.

Unfortunately, they're all extremely amorous. And they're all dead ringers for Michael Moore.
Posted by Darth VAda 2004-11-04 11:07:41 PM||   2004-11-04 11:07:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#64 Was that a rhetorical question, smn? Was it asked in a frivolous mood?
Posted by Asedwich  2004-11-05 12:06:18 AM||   2004-11-05 12:06:18 AM|| Front Page Top

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