Yasser Arafat Dead

[hismajesty]

One more enemy of liberty gone.

[quasi-modo]

One less terrorist. Now the PLO has to find a new leader....

[Hazard]

This is actually a bad thing... there will be much unrest, violence, rioting, etc. among Palestinians.

[DOOM]

This is actually a bad thing... there will be much unrest, violence, rioting, etc. among Palestinians.

Maybe there will be, maybe there won't.

It depends on what replaces him.  But nothing was ever going to get accomplished over there as long as he was the one running things, in my opinion.  He may have had a Noble Peace Prize on his shelf, but he was still a terrorist.

[hismajesty]

There's already riots happening, but even if he were alive violence would still be taking place. Now they're burning tires instead of bombing busses (at least for today.) Yoni was telling me that Israel is giving the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to the PLO, so they got what they wanted. Too bad they'll continue to commit acts of terror in Israel, at least I think they will.

[Hazard]

Maybe there will be, maybe there won't.

There absoultly will be. Look at history, when a leader like that dies there is major unrest for years and years.

[DOOM]

There was already unrest, there was already violence.

The real question is, will something finally be able to get accomplished over there without Arafat stonewalling everything.

[Hazard]

There was already unrest, there was already violence.

The real question is, will something finally be able to get accomplished over there without Arafat stonewalling everything.

It depends on who is elected as the new Palestinian leader. If the leader is open to democracy, things will change. If the leader wants to continue the "fight" then it will all stay nearly the same.

[Falcon[anti-yL]]

mysterious illness

I wonder what it could've been.

[hismajesty]

Speculation of HIV has arose.

[Mephisto]

Speculation of HIV has arose.

Didn't he have some sort of throat cancer?

[Arta]

I thought it was liver failure...?

[iago]

I heard he got exploded!

[Zakath]

You heard wrong. It wasn't "exploded." It was...

[begin tinny monotone]Yassar's head a splode.[/end tinny monotone]

[hismajesty]

I hate the UN. They flew the UN flag half staff to honor Arafat, but didn't do it when Reagan died. The US founded the UN, and we fund most of it. They are ungrateful and they suck.