Thom Holwerda's Journal: Arafat's Funeral

I'm currently watching the ceremonials surrounding the funeral of Yasser Arafat. Impressive-- there are a lot of people in Cairo out on the streets. It's the respect Arafat desrves.

What shocks me though, is the position the US and Israel take. The US only sent a vice-secretary of foreign afairs. Sharon didn't even mention Arafat, and no one from the Israeli Nazi government attends the funeral. This again shows that Mr. Bush and Nazi Sharon are not out for peace in the middle-east. If they really were, the US and Israel could've sent out a message by sending people with real status.

I hate Sharon and his government. He's a nazi.

AraFAT-32

[NaveWeiss]

Why would anyone from Israel go to Egypt? I don't think they would want to be moving targets. People are still afraid of it after the last terror attack in Sinai.

I hate Sharon and his government. He's a nazi.

That's really grown-up, you know.. even that Sharon is right-winged, he was the only leader that had the courage to push the seperation program, which inolves evacuating settlements.

Re:segregation [arafat-32]

[Thom Holwerda]

It's bad because its Palestinian land--in case you don't know, in 1948, it were the Palestinians that were thrown out of their country so that the international community could dump the Jews there.

Imagine you get expelled from your country after living there for thousands of years, because some other people on the other side of the world decided that they are gonna put some folks there.

How fair is that?

And Sharon is a nazi because:

1) He executed thousands of Egyptian POWs in the 6 Day War (1967), si