Israel Matzav

Arafat museum a year away

Thursday will make seven years since the World's most unrepentant terrorist went to hell. A museum honoring the memory of the terrorist, Yasser Arafat, will be opening in the Mukhata complex in Ramallah within the next year. The cost of building the museum is now estimated at $3.4 million - nearly double the original estimate. The museum will have thousands of artifacts from Arafat's life.

Thousands of artifacts from former PLO terrorist leader Yasser Arafat's life are being gathered for a new $3.4 million museum in Ramallah. The facility, set to open within the year, is being built on to the Muqata – the compound where the PLO chairman spent the last two years of his life.

That section of the building, which now serves as the headquarters for his successor, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has been sealed since Arafat's death on November 11, 2004.

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The museum is being built by the Yasser Arafat Foundation, inaugurated in Cairo in February 2008 by a group that included PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa and Arafat's nephew, Nasser al-Qidwa, who became chairman of the board.

Some $5 million was already in the foundation's coffers by the time the organization was officially launched. However, the source of the funding is not clear, and no information is publicly available. [What? So little? And he didn't even leave them the Swiss bank account number? CiJ]

Among the thousands of items in the collection being catalogued is one of the famous black and white cotton keffiyehs worn by Arafat, that eventually became the worldwide symbol of Palestinian terrorism, and later, the Palestinian Authority.

“Arafat wasn't better than those in charge today because he brought us all those thieves of the PLO,” a Ramallah shopkeeper, Mohammed Sobeh, told the Associated Press. “But despite all that, I love Arafat because he died while he was resisting” Israel and the United States.

YNet adds a few more 'artifacts.'

Six years after his death, the keepers of the Former Palestinian Authority Chairman's memory are gathering thousands of objects - photographs, pistols, the trademark sunglasses and military-style suits he favored - for display in a museum under construction at his former West Bank headquarters, where Arafat spent the last three years of his life encircled by Israeli forces.

Let's not get all nostalgic for this terrorist scum.

A year and a half ago, when this story first came out, I wrote a list of the top ten things I'd like to see in an Arafat Museum. It's time to break that list out again.

Well, I can think of a few things I'd like to put in that museum. Here's my top 10 list.

1. Video of Arafat's physician saying Arafat died of AIDS.

2. Video of PFLP leader Ahmad Jabril admitting Arafat died of AIDS.

3. "Red Horizons" by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former head of Romanian intelligence under Nicolai Ceausescu.

4. Book by Clinton aide Terry McAuliffe recounting how Arafat made a pass at him.

5. Arafat's blue pajamas.

6. Arafat's uniform that was sold for NIS 200 (about $47 at the time).

7. Arafat's missing Nobel Peace Prize medal.

8. The list of terrorists to whom Arafat was paying salaries during the intifada (taken from computer hard drives when Israel raided the Mukhata in 2002).

9. Arafat's Swiss bank account numbers.

10. Suha Arafat's monthly budget in Paris (one month of which would more than pay for this museum).

For the record, the reason I'm emphasizing things having to do with Arafat's homosexuality is because it's the thing that will most destroy his image among the 'Palestinian people.'

I'm sure Jimmy Carter will be there to cut the ribbon at the opening. But what happens if they find Muslim graves inside when they're doing the construction? Hmmm.

Labels: AIDS, Mukhata, Nobel Peace Prize, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:36 PM