I read somewhere that Arafat's death had set the blogging world on fire, that everyone was posting, everyone had an opinion. I checked and my blog was still cool, no sign of a fire. I figured I'd better not make the reporter a liar, so here's my post on Arafat. FINALLY! Ding dong, the bastard's dead. Do I believe peace is possible between Israel and Palestine? Eh, I'm undecided. Is it more possible now that Arafat is gone? Uh, yeah. It's, like, possible now. It sure wasn't when that a-hole was around siphoning off -- according to some reports -- aid money to the tune of as much as 6 billion dollars while letting "his people" continue to live in awful conditions that bred the kind of hostility and animosity that helped fuel the war against Israel while he jetted around meeting foriegn leaders pretending to want peace. Rot in hell, dude. There. There's some fire for you.
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My conservative friends, of which I have a shocking amount, all had basically the same thing to say during the Bush/Kerry election. It was essentially, "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't." I maintained then and still do that whereas we already knew Bush was the devil (OK, not the devil but devilish in this analogy), we did not know whether Kerry was. Nevertheless, whoever takes Arafat's place will be one of his handpicked henchmen... in other words... a devil. Reform isn't going to come to Palestine any time soon, and when all is said and done we may long for the days of Arafat.
When the KKK were around, everybody knew where the hatred was based. Now, the hatred in America is much more stealth and harder to stop. Whoever takes Arafat's place will probably not hate as overtly as Yasser, which only means the closed-door hatred is going to increase.
Hang onto them hats and glasses,
My conservative friends, of which I have a shocking amount, all had basically the same thing to say during the Bush/Kerry election. It was essentially, "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't." I maintained then and still do that whereas we already knew Bush was the devil (OK, not the devil but devilish in this analogy), we did not know whether Kerry was. Nevertheless, whoever takes Arafat's place will be one of his handpicked henchmen... in other words... a devil. Reform isn't going to come to Palestine any time soon, and when all is said and done we may long for the days of Arafat.
When the KKK were around, everybody knew where the hatred was based. Now, the hatred in America is much more stealth and harder to stop. Whoever takes Arafat's place will probably not hate as overtly as Yasser, which only means the closed-door hatred is going to increase.
Hang onto them hats and glasses,
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