Think Arafat is looking down from heaven, knowing Abass helped kill him?
CUI BONO, readers, CUI BONO?
"Palestinians unveil Arafat mausoleum; Abbas honors former rival" by Ken Ellingwood/Los Angeles Times November 11, 2007
That's what killers do; honor their victims.
Throws you off the trail, huh, readers?
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The squat tomb sits in dignified quiet, decked in gleaming white Jerusalem stone on a slope that soon will be carpeted green by 25 species of trees and shrubs.
A two-story prayer hall and 98-foot minaret stand guard nearby, completing a memorial complex for the late Yasser Arafat that is tranquil, stately, and well ordered.
Three years after Arafat's death, Palestinian officials yesterday unveiled a tomb complex on the spot where he was buried Nov. 12, 2004, in a scene of pandemonium a day after his death.
During the ceremony, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, laid a wreath in the colors of the Palestinian flag on the tombstone and honored his onetime rival with a moment of silence.
Arafat died at 75 in a French military hospital three years ago today. The exact cause of death remains unknown. Many Palestinians believe he was poisoned and tend to blame Israel.
Yup! They had him sealed up in his compound there.
Coulda had an Abass agent poison his food!
The Yasser Arafat Mausoleum is next to the offices of Abbas, who succeeded Arafat as Palestinian Authority president.
How about that odd CUI BONO, huh?
You know, Lyndon Johnson became president, too!
The dedication ceremony drew Palestinian officials, foreign diplomats, and members of the once-dominant Fatah movement that under Arafat was the leading edge of the fight for Palestinian statehood.
The compound's spare design - the pale stone is adorned only with Koran verses in an ornate Arabic script - is meant to symbolize Arafat's Spartan lifestyle and personal sacrifice for the Palestinian cause, Shtayyeh said.
Mohammed Shtayyeh, a former housing minister who oversaw construction of the $1.5 million project:
"The human touch of Yasser Arafat is very missed. The open door of Yasser Arafat is very missed. The charisma is very missed."
And CUI BONO to Israel huh? STINK!!!!
While Arafat put the quest for Palestinian nationhood firmly into the world's focus, he bears much of the responsibility for the condition in which Palestinian society now finds itself.
Now the Zionist-controlled shitrag blames him for the problems!
Like OCCUPATION and STRANGULATION have nothing to do with it!
Palestinian commentator Hani Masri:
"His absence showed how much he was still needed and how much of a vacuum he left behind. . . . No other leader can fill his place."
And CUI BONO? WHO BENEFITS from Palestinian division? Only one!
Arafat's funeral erupted in a wild free-for-all as thousands of mourners surged over the walls and past security guards. Officials who had brought the body by helicopter battled for hours to push through the throng to reach the grave."
'Cause they loved him!
Rest in Peace, Yassir!
