11-11-2004 10:01									#181
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Nice change of title .

This thread must break a record for number of titles .

	11-11-2004 10:19									#182
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Recquiesat in Pacem

	11-11-2004 10:22									#183
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RIP... without President Arafat, no one would have heard about the Palestinians. Perhaps they'd be as well known as the Sudanese or Nigerian problem without terror. Not like many others can claim moral high ground on that... for instance some American founding fathers were terrorists (what do you think tar and feathering is?)

	11-11-2004 10:23									#184
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who's going to be leading the palestinians now?

	11-11-2004 10:30									#185
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If he really is dead this time, it's probably one of the better things to have happened to the Palestinians in the last 40 years.

But try telling them that.

	11-11-2004 10:31									#186
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Theoretically, Abbas will take over the PLO and Qurei will take over the PA. Practically, the situation is ripe for civil war.

	11-11-2004 10:32									#187
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About time that ****er died.

	11-11-2004 10:39									#188
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If state leaders had just a little sense of morbid payback to them, they'd all be issuing strong condemnations of his death.

	11-11-2004 10:45									#189
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You know more then anything else I will remember Arafat as the bastard who supported Saddam in the first gulf war. I remember Arafat calling upon Saddam to arm his scud missiles with chemical weapons and the Israelis declaring that if the Iraqs used chemical weapons then they'd nuke Baghdad. I seem to recall British Prime Minister John Major making a similiar statement about how the UK would nuke Iraq if Saddam used NCB weapons against its soldiers.

Arafat was never very good at picking the winning side. He tried a coup d'estate in Jordan which failed, he tried another in Lebonon whith also failed, he repeatedly refused to sign any peace agreement with Israel dispite getting almost everything he wanted, and most of all he failed to realize how his support of terrorism alienated the world from the Palestian cause. I have no idea how anyone could support this man after the Munich Massacre.

Arafat is dead and not a second to soon; maybe now we can have peace in the middle east.

	11-11-2004 10:51									#190
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quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed who's going to be leading the palestinians now?

Write In Muhammed278 For President.

	11-11-2004 10:56									#191
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quote: he repeatedly refused to sign any peace agreement with Israel dispite getting almost everything he wanted,

Oslo Accords?

quote: and most of all he failed to realize how his support of terrorism alienated the world from the Palestian cause.

Without terrorism the rest of the world wouldn't know about a Palestinian cause.

	11-11-2004 10:56									#192
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Reporter: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this interview with Arafat what I met with not half an hour ago in this very hospital.

Palestinian Official: Oh yes, the, uh, the ...What's,uh...What's wrong with him?

Reporter: I'll tell you what's wrong with him, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with him!

Palestinian Official: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.

Reporter: Look, matey, I know a dead Arafat when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

Palestinian Official: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable man, this Palestinian Chairman, idn'he, ay? Beautiful head scarf!

Reporter: The head scarf don't enter into it. He’s stone dead.

Palestinian Official: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!

Reporter: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the bed) 'Ello, Mister Yassar Arafat! I've got a lovely fresh stack of bills for you if you show...

(Palestinian Official hits the bed)

Palestinian Official: There, he moved!

Reporter: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the bed!

Palestinian Official: I never!!

Reporter: Yes, you did!

Palestinian Official: I never, never did anything...

Reporter: (yelling and hitting the bed repeatedly) 'ELLO YASSAR!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!

(Takes Arafat out of the bed and thumps his head on the EKG. Throws him out of the bed and watches him slump to the floor.)

Reporter: Now that's what I call a dead Arafat.

Palestinian Official: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!

Reporter: STUNNED?!?

Palestinian Official: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! World leaders stun easily, major.

Reporter: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That Arafat is definitely deceased, and when I met with him not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that his total lack of movement was due to him bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged speech.

Palestinian Official: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for Jerusalem.

Reporter: PININ' for JERUSALEM?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got started the interview?

Palestinian Official: World leaders prefers keepin' on their backs! Remarkable leader, id'nhe, squire? Lovely head scarf!

Reporter: Look, I took the liberty of examining that Arafat when I got him alone, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting up in his bed in the first place was that he had been STRAPED there.

(pause)

Palestinian Official: Well, o'course he was straped there! If I hadn't straped that man down, he would sneaked up to the door, and
VOOM! Feeweeweewee!

Reporter: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this man wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through him! 'E's bleedin' demised!

Palestinian Official: No no! 'E's pining!

Reporter: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This Arafat is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't straped 'im to the bed 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the
bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-ARAFAT!!

(pause)

Palestinian Official: Well, I'd better replace him, then. (he takes a quick peek behind the door) Sorry squire, I've had a talk with the guys back at Ramallah, and uh, we're right out of leaders.

Reporter: I see. I see, I get the picture.

Palestinian Official: I got a slug.
(pause)

Reporter: Pray, does it talk?

Palestinian Official: Nnnnot really.

Reporter: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT, IS IT?!!???!!?




Stolen shamelessly from Monty Python.

Last edited by The Mad Monk on 11-11-2004 at 11:03

	11-11-2004 11:13									#195
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He should try seeking out the owner's brother in Bolton.

	11-11-2004 11:13									#196
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The hip-hop community will never be the same without him... (middle picture)

	11-11-2004 11:48									#197
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Hmm. It seems the Israeli military has gone to high alert and the borders are being fortified. I suppose it's just prudence on their part, but Arafat's death really does open a window of opportunity. For both sides. Let's just hope there's not a repeat of 2000 this time around.

Gatekeeper

	11-11-2004 12:49									#198
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gotta love the title changes

	11-11-2004 13:25									#199
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident gotta love the title changes

Trumped my seperate thread on his death. How rude!

	11-11-2004 13:39									#200
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@ The Mad Monk

	11-11-2004 13:48									#201
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Arafat is dead and not a second to soon; maybe now we can have peace in the middle east.

There will never be peace in the middle east, never never never. The quest for peace in the middle east is a false goal created by satanic monsters...............

Arafats death has nothing to do with getting peace in the middle east.

	11-11-2004 13:59									#202
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quote: Originally posted by Cookie Monster The quest for peace in the middle east is a false goal created by satanic monsters

Middle East peace is satanic? Guess that explains all of those pesky "holy" wars.

	11-11-2004 15:03									#203
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I'm sorry, MM, but not really too funny in context.

A man died. He may have been a right rat bastard by my standards, but I'm not gonna celebrate a human being dying.

At the risk of being flamed, I think Bush had it right, God bless his soul.

	11-11-2004 15:06									#204
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What a waste. He had his chance to lead his people to the promised land of an independent state, and he blew it away.

Despite his terrorist past, I think if he had accepted to the Camp David agreement he would have been remembered well. Instead, he sentenced his people and the people of Israel to more suffering with his rejection of the terms. History shall judge him harshly.

	11-11-2004 15:15									#205
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quote: Originally posted by notyoueither A man died. He may have been a right rat bastard by my standards, but I'm not gonna celebrate a human being dying.

Sorry, I'm still mourning all of deaths he was (and will be) responsible for.

	11-11-2004 15:21									#206
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Bush said "May God have mercy on his soul."

Last week, that is.

	11-11-2004 15:25									#207
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China's Hu Jintao declares Arafat an "outstanding politician".

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...st_arafat_china


How bad is it in China that Arafat looks outstanding by comparison?

	11-11-2004 15:28									#208
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quote: Originally posted by notyoueither I'm sorry, MM, but not really too funny in context. A man died. He may have been a right rat bastard by my standards, but I'm not gonna celebrate a human being dying. At the risk of being flamed, I think Bush had it right, God bless his soul.

Don't be sorry, I knew it was on the edge when I posted it.

It's been bouncing around my head since this "is he or isn't he" tussle started, and I had to let it out.

	11-11-2004 15:28									#209
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quote: Originally posted by Winston Bush said "May God have mercy on his soul." Last week, that is.

I started saying it myself after he started a civil war in Jordan in 1970. Can't remember the last time he was worthy of any kind of respect.

	11-11-2004 15:34									#210
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A sad end to a once great man...

Maybe if Rabin hadn't been assassinated things would have turned out differently, but as it was he stuck around way past his sell by date ultimately becoming a barrier to peace.

Now we just need his war crim buddy Sharon to join him and we might even see some progress...