Arafat Dies at last

The PLO have announced that Arafat has died. I’m not sure why he was kept on life support for so long or conversely, why it took authorities so long to announce his death, but there are some interesting theories. It seems the PLO and his wife, separately, wanted Arafat to cough up with some pin numbers The World Net Daily asks Where are Arafat’s stolen billions?

His personal fortune has been estimated at between $2 and $3 billion, most of it in Swiss bank accounts. He would have been worth a lot more were it not for the hard times in exile from 1982 until 1993, when Arafat was worth up to $5 billion, mostly through drug trafficking in Lebanon.

I Googled arafat+stolen money and got 95,000 hits. Must be something in the theory. Can you imagine, for a moment, Howard or Bush being accused of slipping two to three billion dollars of their nations riches into private swiss bank accounts! There would be battalions of pro-bono lawyers struggling to pick up the chase. MSM would go beserk, The ABC would even replace The Bill and SBS a soccer match with talking heads screaming for blood. A nainstream terrorist does it and Annan Koffee sends a sympathy card, and at one stage, where his stolen wealth was about 5 billion dollars, he even received the Nobel Peace prize. Jesus! JEFF JACOBY in the Boston Times writes a piece called Arafat the monster and gets straight to the point

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 bloody 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.

Reuters, with Agence France-Presse quotes French President Jacques Chirac:

“With him disappears a man of courage and conviction who for 40 years embodied the Palestinians’ struggle for recognition of their national rights.”

Can’t any world leaders say – We are glad the murdering swine is dead? It’s too early to tell whether his demise will herald in a more civilized PLO leader but I hope so. If they managed to get some of his stolen blood money back they might be able to help their own people with schools and decent medical services. Nah – more semtex, assault rifles and RPGs would be the PLOs answer. Update: This obituary in the Times Online is worth reading