The Arafat Sketch

[unixronin]

"It's not pining, it's passed on!  This Arafat is no more!  It has ceased to be.  It's expired and gone to meet its maker.  This is a late Arafat.  It's a stiff!  Bereft of life, it rests in peace!  If you hadn't nailed it to the perch Palestinian Peace Authority, it would be pushing up the daisies!  It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!  This, my friend, is an ex-Arafat!"

 

Maybe now we can have peace in the Middle East.... Arafat's been playing both sides of the fence for far too long.

Comments

[dr-nebula.livejournal.com]

He's a Palestinian Blue, beautiful plummage!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, he's ... he's, ah ... probably pining for the fjords desert. (Or maybe the camels.)

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Eh. Won't happen until Israel stops this silly tit-for-tat business and starts behaving. Which they don't seem inclined to do.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, Israel has to clean up its act too. (Not that I particularly have a problem with the idea of taking out the leaders of the terrorist factions. I've been advocating it for years. Done consistently, it tends to discourage new leaders from arising.)

But the fact remains, all of his posturing and fingers-crossed-behind-his-back negotiating aside, Yasser Arafat has never been part of the solution; he's always been part of the problem, and every time there has been a realistic chance at peace, he's managed to derail or sabotage it one way or another. As has been noted elsewhere, he blocked, stalled and stonewalled the previous Palestinian Prime Minister until he quit in disgust and told Arafat to shove it where the sun don't shine.

[juuro.livejournal.com]

Arafat did, however, at a time manage to put some sort of unity into the Palestinian movement, and there was a de facto ceasefire for several years. Now that Abu Ammar is no more, I fear the Palestinian movements are going to splinter again, and in their struggle for the overall control, are going to be more bloodthirsty than before.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Very true. I had considered this possibility.

It's been suggested that what Israel should do at this point is sit tight, secure its borders, wait out the almost-inevitable Palestinian civil war without attempting to intervene in any way, then cautiously offer an olive branch to whatever government emerges.