Boo Hoo. General Arafat is dead.
Much of the American media would have us cry for this "freedom fighter." But let's call a spade a spade. The man is the father of modern terrorism. Just as Edison invented the light-bulb, Arafat invented hijacking of planes and other useful means of waging war when one is too cowardly to fight with conventional means. Put another way, he pioneered waging war on innocent civilians in the modern era. The man is a terrorist who was the only person ever to address the U.N. wearing a side-arm.
We hear that his life's objective was to build a "Palestinian" state but that is an incomplete thought. His life's goal was to build a "Palestinian" state upon the ruins of a Jewish state. And what of his reference to "The Iraqi Missile?" Are we to suppose he meant missile carrying traditional explosives? Or chemical weapons? No, he expected the Iraqis to develop a nuclear missile which would wipe out more Jews than Hitler did. He could hardly wait for this to happen.
And what about all the money he collected, hoarded and dispensed as if it were his own. Did he build schools? Did he build infrastructure? Did he do anything constructive for any single person on the face of the Earth? No unless you count his wife and family, or any of his immediate loyal associates.
So let's please put him in his rightful place in history. General Arafat was a thieving terroristic genocidal murderer. He is perhaps one of the top ten criminals who have ever lived. He almost makes Hitler seem tame.
I am crying tears of joy that he has left this world. Let's see if the "Palestinian" people can pry their money from his cold dead hands.