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July 14, 2007
Outing Arafat
The inimitable Mark Steyn on a late unlamented thug:
Jonah, that Arafat-died-of-Aids story is “no shocker” to you, and pretty much an open secret in diplomatic circles. I’m in Madrid at the moment, and it prompted many knowing chortles among political types I mentioned it to today, along with fond reminiscences about Yasser’s corps of hunky blond Scandinavian bodyguards - an odd bunch of chaps to find in Ramallah, but presumably they were doing the jobs Palestinians won’t do.Yet this revelation no doubt came as news to most of the late Father of his Country’s citizenry. So it will be interesting to see the impact of this revelation on Fatah’s already collapsed standing. When Ahmad Jibril announces “to every honorable member of the Fatah movement that he should be happy that we got rid of the plague, which had been imposed upon them and upon the Palestinian people”, I would assume he knows whereof he speaks. If you were a Hamas publicity guy and you wanted to deliver the coup de grace to a regime of unloved secular kleptocrats, outing them as promiscuous gay secular kleptocrats would seem to be the perfect move.
Judith | 07/14/07 at 10:45 PM | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine
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C'mon Judith. Arafat was no fool. He wanted European body guards because they were much ess likely to assassinate him if they thought he was slacking off on the jihad against the infidels.
Lynne | July 17, 2007 11:09 AM
