Yasser Arafat Is Dead

Can't say as I'll miss him.

Just as I haunt your every waking moment it seems...

This looks a pretty good opportunity for actual progress in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Arafat was roadblock.

Powell says it remains to be seen on who emerges to deal with the terrorist. Bush just said his death was a 'Significant Moment'.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=1312&e=3&u=/nm/20041111/pl_nm/mideast_bush_dc_7

I could not begin to guess.

Arafat the monster
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | November 11, 2004

YASSER ARAFAT died at age 75, lying in bed surrounded by familiar faces. He left 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.

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Bush is a Christian...comon...