Oooo :)

[hkellick]

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Heeeey Goodbye.
Goodbye Yassar Arafat.
May the prophets prick you with a thousand red hot needles for the rest of your afterlife.
ie.. Burn in Hell, you bastard.

Hopefully NOW we can find some semblance of peace in Israel/Palestine.

And, by and by, I don't have an issue with a Palestinian state. I don't have an issue with somebody who is neither Israel nor Palestine governing Jerusalem. I have no problem with all those Israeli settlers being kicked out of the lands that Israel took in it's wars.

But I hate Arafat and I don't believe he was interested in peace. And he WAS a terrorist.

Comments

[alierak.livejournal.com]

I think it's possible that, for a while, a decade or two ago, he was interested in peace. Either that, or he hired a speechwriter to make it look that way (http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-lecture.html). Other than that, yes, it is truly bizarre how a man with so much conflict, war, and violence on his record could be remembered in any other way.

[lite.livejournal.com]

I doubt I believe he was ever interested in peace (though I'm highly biased), though I might be willing to believe such a possibility given that he thought Israel was willing to give him everything he wanted.
But, the problem is... after a percieved 2000+ years of persecution for simply being jesus (topped by the holocaust), I don't believe Israel's Jewish government would even consider some of Yassar's demands (Still won't), such as even sharing Jerusalem.