Requests come in for funeral attendance

[drdon326]

Requests by international visitors to attend Arafat's funeral have already started coming in, Deputy Internal Security Minister Yaakov Edri, who is filling in for Gideon Ezra while he is abroad, said Wednesday.

A farewell ceremony for Arafat will be held in Cairo's International Airport on Thursday. Arafat's funeral will be held in Ramallah on Friday.

French President Jacques Chirac has alerted Israel that he will attend the funeral. German's Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer will attend the ceremony in Cairo, as will the deputy foreign ministers of Britain, Russia and Spain. United Nations' Kofi Annan, however, is not expected to arrive.

The United States and some European states are not planning to send their heads of states to a funeral for the ailing Arafat, but will send cabinet ministers or diplomats instead, diplomats said Tuesday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1099973627061

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good ol' Jacques.....he never met a terrorist he didnt love.

[Comadreja]

1. At least he knows the difference

[dogtag]

2. It's not about Arafat, it's about the legitimacy of the

Palestinians as a people worthy of having their own country.

[drdon326]

3. Oh really ?? France’s everlasting love for the PLO

France’s government shows once again where its priorities lie: helping Muslim rogue dictators blindly until the end. So after Saddam Hussein, they are going to stick with Arafat whatever happens, even after it has been widely proven that Arafat remains one of the major masters of terror in the world.

Last but not least, in yesterday’s Le Monde op-ed page, a group of influential French politicians and intellectuals signed a declaration of solidarity with the PLO’s representative in France, Leila Shahid. Her last name means martyr in Arabic, possibly an ironic touch. In this text they state,

"The Israeli government annexes and chokes the occupied territories, multiplies war crimes and tries to destroy the elected Palestinian Authority.”

As usual, whatever the circumstances and the hard facts, France goes to great lengths to defend the PLO and Arafat.
In such an environment of fueling hatred of Israel, it is not surprising that young French Muslims keep on physically attacking French Jews in one of the largest waves of anti-Semitism since Hitler’s day.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3646

[Scurrilous]

4. American Thinker? Oh really?

By their links ye shall know them:

Lucianne.com
National Review Online
MEMRI
DEBKAfile
Daniel Pipes
Little Green Footballs

...and no, I do not wish to comment on the article. :thumbsdown:

[drdon326]

5. I figured....

if you dont like the messege, blame the messenger.

:eyes:

[IA_Seth]

6. What if you dont like the messenger? n/t

[drdon326]

7. Easy....

learn to separate the messege from the messenger.

[Djinn]

8. when you support an article from

some Nazi source THEN maybe you're "don't shoot the messenger" guff would hold a little more weight.

guess it time to bring out the "freedom" fries and smash french wine again :eyes: