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

[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.