This week’s Rant
from Eric Renderking Fisk, he asks who was Yasser Arafat and what will
be his legacy in the years to come.
November 18th, 2004
"In
Celebration of The Death of A Terrorist"
"At
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's request, the U.N. General Assembly
accorded Arafat the honors of a head of state because that's the way he
was treated for many years by the 191-member body, AP reported U.N.
spokesman Fred Eckhard as saying.
As a result,
the blue-and-white U.N. flag flew at half-staff outside U.N.
headquarters on Thursday, and the General Assembly held a memorial
tribute to the Palestinian leader, AP said."
This was one of
many stories in the news after the
death of Yasser Arafat. Since his death, this man has been treated by
the elite media with high honors with the intensity of energy of an
actual Earth-Shattering event. It’s as if a legendary Pop-Star had
passed off in his prime, the Arabic answer to Elvis had finally “Left
The Building” for the very last time. Fact is, I did a quick search on
the Internet and I tried to find if there were reactions similar after
the death of Mother Teresa or Ronald Reagan… one nun and one former
President of The United States… and I’m still struggling to find news
of the Flags at half mass at The United Nations for either of these
two. Say what you want about Ronald Reagan, but I dare say that Mother
Teresa did more for World Peace in a single week then Arafat has done
in his whole life.
If anything, Arafat was the
anti-Teresa; The Reverend Mother dedicated
her life to peace and forgiveness while the only “peace” Arafat was
dedicated to was giving his “martyrs” the resources to blow them selves
up and Jewish residents thus causing repetition to the peace process. A
Peace treaty would be signed, then another bombing and an end to the
treaty… another peace treaty wold lead to another bombing ending THAT
treaty.
And during the week since his
death, there have been many
retrospectives of his life, and yet the media has been arrogant and
remiss in addressing the countless lives taken by his terrorist groups.
I find this imbalance disturbing and bordering on heresy. At the very
least, it’s in bad taste.
Who was Arafat besides the self
proclaimed leader of The Palestinian
people and fundraiser for Palestinian terrorist groups? He was a man
who passed up every opportunity for lasting peace and effort to end the
bloodshed in Israel. President Clinton once said Arafat never missed an
opportunity to miss an opportunity. During the last years of his
administration, President Clinton when into “Operation: Legacy Rescue”
to save himself from being put into the history books as the first
American President to be impeached… he worked harder then he had ever
worked in his life (and doing legitimate work for a change) trying to
end the confict in Israel. Clinton’s goal was to bring a lasting peace
to the Middle East and was able to secure 98% of everything Arafat said
he wanted. Arafat eventually walked away, using the excuse that
Jerusalem was the “all or nothing” goal for a Palestinian state. If
Jerusalem couldn’t be the capitol of a new Palestine, then there would
be no new Palestinian State. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak even
made an offer to give Arafat everything he could have wanted, including
giving Sovereignty of The Temple Mount back to the Palestinian people,
but Arafat just walked away from the Peace Talks in Camp David.
Besides the self proclaimed leader
of The Palestinian people and
fundraiser for Palestinian terrorist groups, Arafat was the master of
“The Stall”, giving lip service to the idea of peace while at the same
time working hard to make sure there was never a lasting peace until
Israel was eliminated.
Don’t the Palestinian people
deserve a leader who’s BETTER then Arafat?
While Arafat was lying on his deathbed, there were rumors that his wife
and his aids were trying to find out the numbers to unlock the secret
Swiss bank accounts. According to many news sources, Arafat had
squirreled away hundreds of millions of dollars that were donated to
the Palestinian people for humanitarian aid and for the eventual
resources of the eventual new Palestinian State. The Palestinian people
have been living in squalor with abysmal living conditions under
abominably low unemployment. What did Arafat do to help these people
besides offer these people hope if only they would be martyrs for
Allah? It’s a serious question that I would like an answer to: What
GOOD did Arafat do for his people? I don’t have a clue.
In the end, I can’t say anything
good about Yasser Arafat. I honestly
feel bad for the majority of the Palestinian people who have been
mislead by him and his surrogates in the United Nations and the rest of
the world who have used these people as pawns in the evil chess game in
the middle east. In no way am I criticizing the Muslim people or the
religion that’s been hijacked by terrorists, it’s the leadership that
I’m condemning.
Arafat was the Hitler of The Second
Half of The Twentieth Century.
Insincere in his aspirations for peace, sought appeasement to have more
time to build recourses for terrorism, commit crimes against the Jews
in Israel and against humanity. He was a brilliant strategist, able to
convince the world that he was another victim in the Middle East
Dilemma while living high on the hog as his people starved, waiting for
the opportunity to become a “martyrs” so their families would be
awarded a windfall.
Just as it was perversion that this
man was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize, this man being honored by the media as an elder statesman and
the dearly departed. His legacy isn’t peace, it was chaos and death… he
was the architect of modern terrorism. His legacy is the terrorist
attacks made by his heirs, Al-Qaeda.
This man’s honored after a life of
lies, deceit and murder, while this
week an American soldier and Marine is vilified by the same media for
defending his fellow service men? Tell me this isn’t backwards.
Further Reading.
What did Yasser Arafat
do to promote the
peace process started in 1991?
What took place at Camp David in 2000?
