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And they wonder why they have no influence?

Maybe he gave her AIDS....

Labels: AIDS, European anti-Semitism, European Union

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:26 PM 0 comments

No good deed goes unpunished: South Africans boo Bush, cheer Obama

George W. Bush was booed in South Africa on Tuesday, while Barack Hussein Obama was wildly cheered. Given the facts, the only explanation I have for that contrast is racism. What a shock....

Former President George W. Bush was booed when he appeared on the video monitor at today’s memorial for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa, according to the White House pool report, which cited local press outlets.

Meanwhile, when the images President Obama and Michelle popped up, there was a 30-second “deafening roar,” the pooler wrote.

How sad. Bush has done an far greater amount for South Africa than Obama. But Obama is much better at crafting his public image and saying the right things.

Bush personally saved the lives of millions of South Africans with his President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, ensuring AIDS drugs are available to South Africa’s impoverished masses.

From a Washington Post piece describing how Bush’s achievements were haunting Obama’s June trip to South Africa:

In South Africa, the success ( of PEPFAR) was extraordinary. AIDS killed roughly 2.3 million in South Africa — once one of the worst-affected countries in the world — and orphaned about a million children there, according to the United Nations. Today, rates of infection have fallen to 30 percent, and nearly 2 million people are on antiretroviral drugs.

Meanwhile, Obama has cut PEPFAR funding and generally been his customary inattentive self. From the same Post piece:

AIDS advocates on Sunday said that Obama administration budget cuts that have slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from PEPFAR threaten to turn back years of progress in the fight against the AIDS epidemic. Last year, the administration unveiled a budget that reduces AIDS funding globally by roughly $214 million, the first time an American president has reduced the U.S. commitment to fighting the epidemic since it broke out in the 1980s during the Reagan administration.

Disgraceful... and racist. 

Labels: African, AIDS, Barack Hussein Obama, George W. Bush, racism, South Africa

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:26 PM 1 comments

Shocker: French forensic experts say Arafat wasn't poisoned

French forensic experts have found that Yasser Arafat did not die of poisoning.

"The results of the analyses allow us to conclude that the death was not the result of poisoning," the source told Reuters, quoting from conclusions of a report by French forensic experts handed over to Arafat's widow Suha.

Swiss forensic experts said last month that results from their tests of samples taken from Arafat's body were consistent with polonium poisoning but were not absolute proof of the cause of death.

Arafat died in a French hospital in November 2004, four weeks after falling ill after a meal, suffering from vomiting and stomach pains.

The official cause of death was a massive stroke, but French doctors said at the time they were unable to determine the origin of his illness. No autopsy was carried out.

A lawyer for Suha Arafat said her legal team would do a counter-expertise and was confident it would show that the French findings would in fact support the Swiss conclusions.

"We have no doubt that the most comprehensive and thorough report that examined all aspects of this case remains the Swiss report," Saad Djebbar told Reuters.

The French report is not due to be published.

A radiation scientist who examined the Swiss and the French reports for Suha Arafat said both studies had found similar levels of Polonium 210 in Arafat's body but differed in their explanations of how it got there.

The scientist, who declined to be named, said the French report concluded that some of the radioactivity could be explained by the presence of radon gas in the tomb where Arafat was buried.

That's what happens when you start looking for 'evidence' nine years after the fact.... But then, we all know how Arafat really died anyway.

Labels: AIDS, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:53 AM 0 comments

A new 'Palestinian' blood libel: Israel causes AIDS by political blackmail

Oh dear me. The people who still cannot accept that their founding leader died because of AIDS are now claiming that Israel spreads AIDS to 'Palestinians' through 'political blackmail.'

Israel is responsible for the increase in the number of AIDS patients in the Palestinian territories, As'ad Ramlawi, director of Primary Heath Care in the Palestinian Authority, claimed Saturday.
Ramlawi's allegation was reported by the PA's official new agency Wafa.

Ramlawi was speaking during an event organized by the PA Ministry of Health in Jenin, marking the United Nation's World Aids Day.

He claimed that Palestinians who go to work in Israel are subjected to "political blackmail" by Israeli authorities - something that exposes them to AIDS.

Ramlawi did not explain what he meant by "political blackmail" and how it is connected to AIDS.

But some Palestinians have in the past claimed that Israeli security forces recruit "collaborators" by first seducing them to have sexual intercourse with prostitutes and then threatening to publish their photos in public if they refused to serve as informants.

These sorts of libelous statements really promote peace....

Labels: AIDS, Palestinians, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:11 AM 2 comments

Arafat's stinken body exhumed

In Jewish tradition, there are a very limited number of circumstances in which it is permitted to exhume bodies. We exhume bodies to move them to a family grave (or to a proper grave) when they were buried under emergency circumstances. We exhume bodies for reburial in Israel, which is considered a special merit. And occasionally we exhume bodies that were not buried in a cemetery because of a public need. Consult your local Orthodox rabbi whether it's permitted if you ever have a question about it.

One reason we don't exhume bodies is that a person is judged by the Almighty during the 11 months (year if you're really bad) after the person passes away, receives his or her judgment, and then in most cases is brought to the afterlife. However, if one's body is exhumed, one is judged all over again.

One can only hope that Yasser Arafat is suffering miserably once again, eight years after the fact, due to the bogus 'investigation' into the cause of his death. In the interest of that 'investigation,' Arafat's body was exhumed from his grave in Ramallah on Tuesday.

A team of international experts from Switzerland, France and Russia was due to take samples from Arafat's body to see if they could detect any trace of poison. The corpse will be reburied later in the day with full military honors. 

French magistrates opened a murder inquiry in August into Arafat's death in Paris after Arafat’s wife, Suha, had requested an autopsy to search for traces of a poisonous substance. She told Al Jazeera in July that a Swiss laboratory had detected high levels of the radioactive isotope polonium in Arafat’s clothes, which have been in storage since his death in 2004. Palestinians have accused Israel of causing Arafat’s death, though no conclusive evidence has been presented publicly. Israel denies killing him.

Arafat, who founded the Palestine Liberation Organization, died in a French hospital at the age of 75. Doctors at the Percy military hospital in Clamart, France, said he suffered from a brain hemorrhage and fell into a coma before he died. He is buried below a glass tomb adjacent to the offices of his successor, Mahmoud Abbas.

 Maybe they can drop him into the ocean wrapped in pig lard on the way back to the grave? Heh.

Labels: AIDS, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:18 AM 0 comments

Senior French doctor in hospital that treated Arafat: 'Absolutely no way' he was poisoned

A senior doctor at the French hospital where Yasser Arafat was treated during the last two weeks of his life says that there is 'absolutely no way' Arafat died of poisoning.

Dr. Roland Masse, a member of the prestigious Académie de Médecine who currently teaches radiopathology at Percy Military Training Hospital in the Paris suburb of Clamart, where Arafat was hospitalized two weeks before his death on November 11 eight years ago, spoke to The Times of Israel to scotch the allegations of polonium poisoning two weeks before a group of scientists are set to take samples for testing from Arafat’s body.

Masse said the symptoms of polonium poisoning would have been “impossible to miss,” noted that Percy had tested Arafat for radiation poisoning, and revealed that the hospital specializes in the related field of radiation detection. “A lethal level of polonium simply cannot go unnoticed,” he said, speaking as workers in Ramallah on Tuesday began the process of preparing Arafat’s grave for exhumation.

Dr. Thierry Revel, the head of the Hematology Department at Percy who signed the medical report on November 14, 2004, has refused to comment on the case. Indeed, medical confidentiality laws prevent doctors in France from divulging any information on their current or past patients. It was Arafat’s family that chose to make public the late Palestinian leader’s medical report; Al Jazeera, a Qatar-based news outlet, said in July that it had received the report from Arafat’s widow Suha.

In a telephone interview with The Times of Israel, Masse said flatly that “there is absolutely no way the symptoms described in Yasser Arafat’s medical report match those of poisoning by polonium.”

Masse elaborated: “When in contact with high levels of polonium, the body suffers from acute radiation which translates into a state of anemia and a severe decrease in white blood cells. And yet Arafat did not present any of those symptoms. What did decrease was his platelets, not his white blood cells,” said Masse, who may have been prepared to discuss the case because he does not treat patients at Percy, only teaching there. (He said the medical team at Percy would have had no need to consult with him, given their high level of expertise.)

Noting that radiation detection happens to be one of the areas in which Percy military hospital excels, Masse said that while Arafat’s medical report contains no specific reference to a test for polonium, it does specify that a number of tests were conducted to check if the patient had been subjected to radioactive substances.

This is nonsense. We all know how Arafat died and we all know how he got it.  But the 'Palestinians' will never admit that Arafat was gay.

Labels: AIDS, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:26 PM 0 comments

Hussein Ibish(!) deconstructs the 'Arafat died from Polonium poisoning' myth

Hussein Ibish, of all people, deconstructs the myth that Yasser Arafat died of Polonium poisoning.

First and most importantly, Arafat's symptoms are well documented and completely inconsistent with 210PO (polonium) poisoning. Unlike Litvenenko, he didn't lose his hair and his bone marrow was found to be undamaged. He also staged at least one brief recovery, which wouldn't be possible in the case of polonium poisoning. It should be added that his symptoms were also completely inconsistent with AIDS.

Second, the Swiss lab report on which the Al Jazeera story relies, clearly states that its findings are inconclusive and provide no basis for concluding polonium poisoning, especially since his symptoms were inconsistent with that. The report also states that further testing may reveal that the 210PO levels detected may prove to have been naturally occurring, albeit unusually high.

Third, the provenance of the items in question is not well-established, and therefore the relationship between the 210PO levels discovered on them and Arafat's condition is very much in doubt. Even an exhumation of the body, which the Palestinian Authority (PA) is reportedly considering, may not prove conclusive, as 210PO has a very short half-life of 137 days.

Finally, the timing of the Al Jazeera story is extremely suspicious. The PA leadership is currently embroiled in a series of controversies involving police brutality against demonstrators, suppression of dissent, potentially politically motivated corruption trials, and a growing financial crisis that has made paying the salaries of public employees extremely difficult.

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Al Jazeera has a history of trying to discredit the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, most notably with the release of a dump of often undated and unsigned documents from the PLO negotiation support unit in January 2011. The current report, which fails to make a convincing case that Arafat was killed by 210PO poisoning, seems to be only the latest iteration of this pattern.

Rumor has it that MJ Rosenberg now believes that Ibish has now joined AIPAC. Heh.

Labels: AIDS, blood libel, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:42 AM 1 comments

Report: Arafat died from full body blood transfusion received in France

This version of Arafat's death comes from IDF intelligence. It's the first one I've seen that makes sense including going beyond 'he had AIDS' (which has been confirmed by many people around him) to explain how his final demise came about.

So what happened in France? Here’s another exposé. Arafat arrived on October 29 in serious condition. According to the information that reached few Israeli officials, and is revealed here for the first time, he suffered from complications stemming from leukemia. It’s possible that the publications that said he was suffering from AIDS were correct and it's possible they weren't – this writer has no conclusive information on that issue. What was known among those at the top of Israel’s defense echelon was that Arafat’s condition had begun to improve at the French hospital. Then, according to Israeli sources, the French doctors performed a dramatic measure – a full body blood transfusion. The process put Arafat in a state of shock and into a coma, one from which he never recovered. He died on November 11, 2004, and was transferred for burial to Ramallah.

What of the investigation being published by the Al Jazeera news network this week, which claims that Arafat was poisoned by Israel? It’s a collection of details, some of which might be true, but together create a completely groundless picture. The details being revealed here for the first time are based on sources that had first-hand knowledge of the full situational picture, and which do not hold any official public position today.

Why has Israel not bothered to officially refute the rumors of Yasser Arafat’s poisoning all these years? Because it had no interest in sustaining rumors as though the Mossad’s long reach made its way into Arafat’s circulatory system as well. Why have the French kept silent about it? Allegedly because of patient confidentiality of the deceased, but also because the true story reveals the fact that the direct cause of Arafat’s death was the medical treatment he was given. Lastly, why have the heads of the Palestinian Authority and the widow, Suha Arafat, kept quiet until this week’s investigation? Because they knew the truth all along, and they know it just as well today.

What seems most plausible is that Arafat had AIDS-related lymphoma. Read the whole thing.

Labels: AIDS, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:03 PM 1 comments

Senior counter-terrorism analyst says Polonium on Arafat's belongings was planted recently

A senior counter-terrorism analyst has told the Jerusalem Post that the levels of Polonium found on Yasser Arafat's belongings indicate that the substance was planted on the belongings long after Arafat's death.

Dr. Ely Karmon, of the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center's Institute for Counter-Terrorism, is a specialist in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear terrorism.

Responding to an Al Jazeera report published Wednesday, which said that specialists at the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, discovered abnormally high levels of polonium on Arafat's belongings, Karmon said that the half life of the substance would make it impossible for polonium to have been discovered at such high levels if it had been used to kill Arafat eight years ago.

According to the Al-Jazeera report, polonium has a half-life of 138 days, "meaning that half of the substance decays roughly every four-and-a-half months."

And yet, eight years after Arafat's death, the Swiss scientists reported finding polonium levels of 54mBq and 180mBq on his belonging, considered to be high levels.

"If it had been used to for poisoning, minimal levels should be seen now. Yet much higher levels were found. Someone planted the polonium much later," Karmon said.

"Because of the half life of the substance, the conclusion is that the polonium is much more fresh," he added.

Karmon has some more questions too. Read the whole thing.

I'm sure you're all as shocked as I am that Suha Arafat and the 'Palestinian Authority' would try to put one over on the world like that.

Labels: AIDS, blood libel, Palestinian Authority, Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:56 PM 1 comments

Yasser Arafat was a vicious, bloodthirsty homosexual

Five years ago, I posted a video in which Yasser Arafat's personal physician testified that he died of AIDS (the video was taken down by YouTube, but it was posted on Daily Motion and it's saved to my laptop just in case). Many of you have seen the description of one of Arafat's trysts by Ian Pacepa, a Romanian defector.

Lenny Ben David says it's time for the 'Palestinians' to forget Arafat. In the process, he enlightens us with a couple more stories of Arafat's penchant for violence and homosexuality.

In an in-depth 1976 biography of Arafat, writer Thomas Kiernan chronicled the life of a young Arafat in Cairo. When Arafat discovered his girlfriend, Jinan al-Oraby, was friendly with the daughters of the Harkabis, an Egyptian Jewish family, he arranged for the murder of their father. When Jinan expressed sorrow for her friends, “Yasser went into a rage… he proceeded to beat me, tearing my clothes off…he threw himself on me… He tried to penetrate me, but he could not do so. This made him even more irrational.”

Kiernan also relates Arafat’s relationship with a boy, Ahmed, whose parents ended up on the Israeli side of the border after the 1948 war. An associate of Arafat’s related, “Yasser tried to get the boy to publicly denounce his parents…Yasser really loved the boy. He was delicate, sensitive, like a flower. He was very much a part of Yasser’s inner circle – four of five boys who lived in the same place, and well, you can imagine what I mean.”

Kiernan continued: Arafat held a “kind of formal hearing for the boy” because of his refusal to denounce his parents. “Arafat sobbed and sobbed as [a young associate] proceeded to castrate the boy. The next day the boy was dead.”

Sick. Just sick.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: AIDS, gay Palestinians, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:47 PM 0 comments

'Palestinians' to exhume Arafat's body

In a to convince the world that Yasser Arafat really was poisoned, the 'Palestinian Authority' will disturb Arafat's rest and exhume his body for an autopsy... just when Arafat was getting used to the temperature in hell....

The Palestinian administration said it would approve Suha Arafat's request to bring Arafat's remains up for autopsy from his limestone mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

"The Authority, as it always has been, is ready to completely cooperate with and clear the way for an investigation into the true causes leading to the martyrdom of the late president," said Nabil Abu Rdeineh, spokesman to Arafat's successor as Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, without giving a date for such a move.

"I want the world to know the truth about the assassination of Yasser Arafat," Suha Arafat told the Qatar-based satellite TV channel, without making any direct accusations but noting that Israel and the United States saw him as an obstacle to peace.

I wonder what they'll do to the body. The Arab Muslims are really, really good at mutilating bodies.

Hey - wouldn't it be neat if they had a car swarm and played catch with Arafat's body parts? Heh.

Labels: AIDS, PLO, Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:41 PM 6 comments

Al-Jazeera suggests Arafat poisoned by Israel

Every once in a while, the Arab media brushes off the blood libel that Israel poisoned Arafat and tries to make hay out of it. Al-Jazeera has done it again.

Arafat's widow provided Al Jazeera with his clothing and toothbrush for laboratory testing at the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland. “I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids,” Al Jazeera quoted Dr. Francois Bochud, the director of the institute as saying.

According to the report, Russian spy-turned-dissident Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London in 2006 under suspicious circumstances, was found to have been poisoned with polonium slipped into his tea.

Arafat suffered similar symptoms to Litvinenko prior to his death - severe diarrhea, weight loss, and vomiting, according to the report.

Palestinians and Arabs have charged in the past that Israel poisoned Arafat. Some PA leaders have suggested that former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan assisted Israel in the poisoning.

The Al Jazeera commissioned study of Arafat's belongings did not reveal any traces of common heavy metals or conventional poisons, so they turned their attention to more obscure elements, discovering the high levels of polonium, according to the report.

Of course, severe diarrhea, weight loss, and vomiting are all consistent with the final stages of AIDS as well. But al-Jazeera would never report that.

Labels: AIDS, al-Jazeera, Palestinian incitement, Palestinian lies, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:49 PM 1 comments

How Arafat died

Sorry for a longer break than expected. A quickie and then I have to get to work (in more ways than one).

One of my children suddenly asked me tonight whether it was true that the Mossad poisoned Yasser Arafat. I said that was a lie and that Arafat died of AIDS. He asked me what AIDS is and I said that it is a disease. He thought about that for a minute and said "it's too bad Israel didn't kill him."

Smart kid. (He really is a smart kid, by the way - no comment which one it is).

Labels: AIDS, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:58 AM 3 comments

ROTFL: Arafat's family to release report on how he died

Nasser al-Kidwa, the nephew of Yasser Arafat and the 'Palestinian' ambassador to the United Nations, is going to release a report in Arabic that will tell 'Palestinians' how Arafat died.

Al-Qudwa says the report will answer "many questions," as it is the Palestinian people's right to get a clear answer about how Arafat died. The document has not previously been seen in Arabic.

The report by French doctors describes a platelet disorder and speculates on its cause, al-Qudwa says. The doctors ruled out cancer and an acute infection, he told Ma'an.

A third possibility was poisoning, al-Qudwa says, but the records show that doctors were unable to conclusively determine what poison, if any, was in Arafat's system.

"We have said that it is poisoning," he hinted.

Poisoning. What a load of bull dung.

People with HIV often have problems with their levels of platelets, cells in the blood that help with clotting.

When the body slows its production of platelets, and/or when platelets are destroyed at a higher-than-normal rate, a condition called thrombocytopenia occurs. People with this condition bleed and bruise easily.

Do I think Arafat had AIDS? I KNOW Arafat had AIDS. Arafat's doctor told us in an interview on Israeli television! And I can even tell you how he got it.

Labels: AIDS, Nasser al-Qudwa, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:26 PM 2 comments

Heh....

In its continuing campaign to defame Muhammad Dahlan, the 'Palestinian Authority' is now accusing him of murdering Yasser Arafat.

Fatah has accused ousted party strongman Muhammad Dahlan of "having a hand" in poisoning late President Yasser Arafat, Arabic-language media reported Saturday.

Arafat died in a Paris hospital in November 2004. The exact cause of his death remains a mystery, but popular belief among Palestinians holds that he was poisoned.

Of course, it's complete nonsense that Dahlan killed Arafat. Arafat died of AIDS. And the 'Palestinians' are still denying it. But the accusation could not happen to a nicer guy. Heh.

By the way, doesn't Dahlan in that picture look a bit like Tom Friedman (without the mustache)? Or is it just me?

Labels: AIDS, Mohamed Dahlan, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:35 PM 2 comments

'Israel sends agricultural carcinogenic medicine and AIDS girls'

In this video, Hizbullah MP Ismail Sukariyya accuses Israel of sending Egypt "agricultural carcinogenic medicine" and "AIDS girls." He also accuses Israel of downing an American plane with 90 Egyptian generals on it. The video was shown on Syrian television on December 19, 2010.

Let's go to the videotape.



I wonder if new American Ambassador Robert Ford - who is scheduled to be in Syria by the end of January - will take up this broadcast and others like it with his Syrian hosts. Don't hold your breath.

You might be wondering since when Hezbullah is so concerned about the welfare of Egypt. I guess this is part of the improvement in their bilateral ties - yet another thing we can chalk up as a result of the Obama administration's weakness in this region.

What could go wrong?

Labels: AIDS, ambassador to Syria, carcinogens, Hezbullah lies, Robert Ford, strong horse

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:18 AM 1 comments

At memorial for mass murderer, a desire for peace but no willingness to compromise

At a rally marking the 6th anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death from AIDS, 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen called for Israelis to realize that 'peace' is more important than 'settlements.' But he gave no indication of any willingness to compromise on any 'Palestinian' demands. To the contrary. He remained as intransigent as ever.

In a speech in Ramallah Thursday, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas said that Israelis needed to realize that peace was “more important than settlements, and more important than narrow interests like the coalition and Lieberman.” Abbas, who was speaking at the annual memorial rally for Yasser Arafat, said that “Israeli and Palestinian children must taste the flavor of coexistence, stability, and mutual respect, before we lose the opportunity.”

He added that the PA continued to oppose terming Israel a Jewish state, and that no deal could be signed until all terrorists were released from Israeli prisons.

I think someone needs to tell Abu Bluff that 'peace' is more important than settlements, and more important than narrow interests like reconciling with Hamas.

JPost adds:

Abbas said that the Palestinian position is clear and there will not be negotiations while building continues in the settlements.

"The Palestinian state will be established when no settlements exist within it," Abbas said.

The Palestinian Authority president stressed that the Palestinians will not sign any peace agreement that does not include the release of Palestinian prisoners and said that the prisoners are the pride of the Palestinian nation.

I guess in Abu Bluff's book, the 'flavor of coexistence' is only to be experienced by those who live in Israel.

But the Arabic reports of Abu Bluff's speech are even more interesting. Elder of Ziyon notes:

Abbas bragged that the fundamental demands of the Palestinian Arab leadership have not changed at all since 1988, implying that they never will. this would include the 1949 armistice lines, the "right to return," Jerusalem and all the other conditions that the so-called "moderates" have been insisting on.

Abbas also added yet another condition for "peace". He would not sign any final agreement with Israel until all Palestinian Arab prisoners are released. This includes those who have murdered Jewish women and children in cold blood.

Because, to him, they are heroes.

What could go wrong?

Labels: AIDS, mass murderer, Yasser Arafat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:33 AM 3 comments

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 2 comments