Yassir Arafat, 1929-2004
Yassir Arafat has been mostly dead for a week, but now it’s official. Let’s all take a moment of silence to mourn this Nobel Peace Prize winning hero of the Palestinian cause. In memoriam:
UPDATE: The Orange County Register has a similar take on the matter.
November 10th, 2004 at 9:21 pm
With his death, I believe that my dream of a Palestinian state is that much closer.
November 10th, 2004 at 10:28 pm
He’s not only merely dead. He’s really, most sincerely dead!
November 10th, 2004 at 10:36 pm
Arafat Is Dead. Period.
Okay, it’s official.
A moment of silence for this peace-loving, kind, gentle, humble, Nobel laureate, gem of a human being.
Okay that’s enough.
Now, I’m going to dance in the streets with my peeps for a while, and send the videotape over to…
November 11th, 2004 at 1:25 am
Heh.
November 11th, 2004 at 8:45 am
Arafat Still Dead
Jacques Chirac says: It is with emotion that I have just learnt of the death of President Yasser Arafat, the first elected president of the Palestinian Authority.Same here, Jacques. My emotion, however, is joy. And it’s summed up nicely by…