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I’m fully aware that this is my second post within a few minutes, but I just got this e-mail from Honest Reporting with some details about Arafat’s death.

1) A one-minute online film: Arafat’s Legacy
2) A detailed biography of Arafat’s life, chronicling his corruption and terror activities ― with a wealth of links to online sources.

Both excellent resources. I also cannot highly enough suggest that you watch Relentless - The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East which is an excellent movie. Also, make sure that you subscribe to Honest Reporting’s e-mails about bias in the media. They’re very, very good e-mails that come every week-or-so.

After many days of speculation and some very funny comments by Santo Cilauro on last night’s The Panel, Yasser Arafat has died. I did just notice the difference in summaries from the BBC version and the Fox News one:

BBC:

Yasser Arafat, symbol of Palestinian nationhood for four decades, dies in a French hospital aged 75.

Fox News:

Palestinian leader succumbs to kidney and liver failure in hospital in France … Arafat’s Mixed Legacy

They both tell quite a different story, don’t they?

Mark down this day for it will forever be remembered as a day in which decades of fighting begins to turn for peace in the Middle East. Arafat was the stumbling block to peace, that’s how he should always be remembered.

Hopefully a suitable partner to Sharon and Israel will be found in due course so that the road to peace can be re-paved. In the mean time it would not upset me if a civil war broke out in the West Bank and Gaza in some kind of power struggle; wouldn’t that just be a shame.

Here’s a satirical look at how the world and the world media sees Israel. Thanks to David Frankel for this one.

Although the planned Israeli withdrawal from Gaza — the largest deportation of Jews from their homes since Poland 1944 — passed a legislative hurdle in last week’s Knesset vote, it has not been definitively approved and may yet be subject to a nationwide referendum. The retreat, however, may have just been stopped in its tracks.

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Jeez, I’m really crying here. Apparently Yassir Arafat is brain dead and on life-support. Shame.

But it makes you ask the question - is it really a good thing? I mean, not even Arafat’s gurus know who is next-in-line, let alone the rest of the world. The new guy might be a thousand times worse — in fact, in all likelihood he will be. ‘Palestinians’ are getting more and more extreme, the ‘new blood’ will probably be worse.

Perhaps it’s a case of better the devil you know. Perhaps.