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AddReply(247743,"Ironic","Zeina","Ramallah","11/13/07","This article was published in 2003.  Its funny because at that time Arafat was confined to his compound, unable to leave for the remaining years in his life because he was surrounded by Israeli tanks and bulldozers. And Israeli continued its curfew  in the cities killing civilians.  And it is said that Arafat was a terrorist?");
AddReply(175437,"The Wonder of Arafat","Joel R. Katzman, Ph.D.","USA","09/19/03","For perverse reasons evil has become indispensable to most of the world. Some have said that our time is a time of moral confusion, but I don\'t believe that this is the issue. There are plenty of ?good? examples to be followed, but the focus for many over the past few generations has been on the celebration evil. Evil and its celebration has become something exciting, interesting, and profitable, and it has become especially attractive to those who align themselves with the extreme Left. One only has to look at the movies and other media to see just how much of time and effort has been dedicated to selling violence and the thrill of becoming morbidly fascinated with the power of evil (violence, destruction and other nefarious plots).  \n\nMany of our younger generation have been feverishly preoccupied with indulging in evil (destruction, violence, music of hate and sadism, and forms of self-mutilation), and this indulgence is one indicator that can help us to understand the extent to which evil is being celebrated. It is almost as if associating with evil produces exhilaration, and that many acts of goodness are just too dull (spoil the fun) and are just too burdensome. Evil acts often carry with them a thrill, and they are often easier to do. Good or constructive acts are usually quite a bit more difficult and they require more of an effort (combating our evil inclinations). We live in an age of almost instant everything, or the need to develop things that require the least amount of time (e.g., sound bytes), and evil very often seems to fit nicely with our need for a quick thrill or high when compared to the effort that is needed to go something that is good or moral. \n\nThe preoccupation and celebration of evil is one of the primary reasons that Arafat and his supporters have become a glorified and ?protected species?. Arafat and his supporters are the epitome of evil and destruction, and this form of evil ?worship? fascinates and thrills. It fascinates and thrills in a way that charged the audiences of Rome when Christians were fed to lions, or when Gladiators tore one another to pieces.  This evil is like a remedy that instantly and temporarily ?cures? boredom, or spares so many from the difficult task of doing something constructive.  Historically, evil has also very profitable monetarily. \n\nArafat?s career has been dedicated to satisfying his evil inclinations and those of his supporters and followers through acts of destruction and death in name of a ?higher? power. I would suggest that the higher power that he has dedicated himself to is not that of Allah, but Satanic-like ?deity?. Wherever Arafat went he unleashed the most hideous and inhumane acts imaginable against person and property. His only contributions to the world, friend and foe alike, have been hate, pain and suffering. One could almost say that he is became Devil?s right hand man, and that his followers and supporters are like a satanic cult engaged in the feverish worship and display of all that is evil. In a traditional sense, many (persons, politicians, and diplomats) have ?sold their souls to the devil? in the hope of receiving a good return on their investment, be it a thrill, fame, fortune, a filler for emptiness, or a means to compensate for failure. This selling of the soul and the subsequent celebration of evil is one of the main reasons why Arafat and his supporters have become indispensable, and why they must be protected. \n");
AddReply(175436,"No Self-Respect","Al Burke","Santa Monica, California","09/19/03","The reason Arafat, Yassin, et al, sit in the land of Israel, among millions of Jews who are armed with guns, bullets,tanks, shells,fighter jets, and bombs, including nuclear weapons, is because the Jews in Israel have little or no self-respect, to demand of their government, or of themselves, the elimination of Arafat. Yassin is alive today because the government of Israel cared more about criticism from the Bush Administration about using heavier ordnance than it concerned itself with performing the task of killing Yassin.  The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto had more self-respect than the Jews of Israel. It is long overdue for the Jews of Israel to confront and force the government of Israel to kill the Jew-haters in Israel\'s midst, or to do it themselves.  No one should expect the violence of islamic terrorism to end, and no one should expect peace to be acheived, until after the enemy has been vanquished, in its entirety.  Trying to make deals for \"peace\" with people who are altogether opposed to the existence of a Jewish State is self-deceiving.  And allowing those Jew-haters to exist in the midst of the Jewish people is self-defeating.  The only path to peace is to turn off the electricity, food, water, and medicine that flows into the arab communities in Yesha, and leave those Jew-haters no option for survival except to be escorted to the border. If the arab nations then do not take them in, that will be an arab tragedy, not a Jewish one.  That requires the Jews in Israel to have the self-respect to demand that the land is ours and ours alone.  Without that self-respect, Arafat and his kind will continue to fester, and the situation will only get worse.");
AddReply(175435,"The Indespensible Arafat","Gershom","","09/19/03","I recommend the following addition to the last paragraph of this story. Let\'s call them what they are:\n\nAgain, on that Holocaust Day, we Israelis will scare our children in their classrooms with horrific pictures and stories, teach them that the mass genocidal murder of Jews, and of human beings generally, is a terrible and unpardonable crime. As for the story of Arafat, that will be a tougher one to tell them. I can think of a title: Exposed: The Western World?s Weakness, Cowardice, and Moral Bankruptcy; or, Why Your Lives Were in Danger for Ten Years and Nobody Did Anything About It.");

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