| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | GenghisTheHun (171)
06/20/2007 | UPDATE: How time flies! We are looking back fondly on Arafat and his Fatah regime in the West Bank and Gaza. Was it just five years ago that everyone was baying on the talking heads television shows that he was a terrorist? Now it seems that a secular Arab nationalist in the Arafat image is just what the doctor ordered for the Middle East. Isn't that what Saddam Hussein was? Hmmmmm!
ORIGINAL COMMENT: Well he moved up the food chain from guerrilla to political leader. The world listened to him at the end.
(4 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | sfalconer (21)
10/21/2005 | This guys body was not even cold and most experts were saying his people are probably better off with out him. This must tell you just how great a leader he was.
(7 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | gosta berling (0)
03/13/2005 | A great freedomfighter who also
won nobels peace price.
He fought the only way that he could
against the israeli oppression.
Like it or not, he is a legend of our time.
(0 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | tocwelsh (2)
02/18/2005 | Should have been buried under ready mix concrete......
(1 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | Flick01 (71)
12/15/2004 | When Yasser Arafat went to a fortune teller she told him that he would die on a Jewish holiday. Which one? he asked. Doesn't matter, she said any day you die will be a Jewish holiday.
(2 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | DaRick (3)
12/14/2004 | Fanatics reckon that 'Israel did it', even though he obviously died of old age. It's not good to not feel guilty over another's death, but his could hasten the peace process.
(1 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | numbah16tdhaha (152)
11/14/2004 | Good ridance. UPDATE: Some are now saying that Israel poisoned him in a feeble attempt on the Arab worlds part to make him appear to be a martyr instead of a chickensh*t terrorist.
(7 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | BeatlesfanSteveo (4)
11/13/2004 | This is almost as good as the sox winning the world series.
(4 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | Daccory (15)
11/12/2004 | I second Eschew here.
(4 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | EschewObfuscation (63)
11/12/2004 |  His is the most important death of 2004. Period. He has been the lynchpin for peace in the most significantly dangerous region in the world, for a very long time, has been for many years ineffective and downright incompetent. But, while he was alive, the various factions of palestinian-oriented terrorist groups (of which al Qaeda is not one) left each other alone but competed with one another in the background. That will no longer be the case. The PLO rose to international infamy by carrying out the most outrageous acts of violent terrorism, in the most high profile locales and events, and parlayed the fear engendered by their brutality into a role in international politics, specifically regarding land in the former Palestine and in Israel. That is the modus operandi they know will work. Arafat's disdain precluded many plans from being carried out in the past, but now there will be no clear leader to show such disdain, certainly no leader with any credibility to such barbarians. For all his incompetence and poor judgement, he maintained some coordinating influence over the Palestinian cause. That will no longer be the case.
(6 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | ClassicTVFan47 (37)
11/11/2004 | Simply a mix of Osama Bin Laden (terrorism) and Adolph Hitler (anti-Semitic genocide) in disguise.
(5 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | louiethe20th (75)
11/11/2004 | To me, nothing but a terrorist!!!He had every opportunity to make some peacful decisions and failed to.
(5 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | Mr.Political (18)
11/11/2004 | This really is a test on how mature you can be. After all, no one should be jumping for joy for another's death, but Arafat has impacted the world in a way very few people can be happy about.
(6 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | Mitch70 (1)
11/11/2004 | Great fact you should all know. Arafat got the nobel peace prize......Ghandi didn't...hmmmm to me it sounds more like the nobel asskissing prize.
(6 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | abichara (62)
11/11/2004 | Arafat, although politically marginalized in his last years, was a major figure in Middle Eastern politics. Contrary to the doomsayers predictions, I think that Arafat's death will allow the peace process to move forward. Palestinian politics will remain gridlocked between moderate and extreme elements, but the major leaders that are up and coming seem more amenable to a major agreement with the Israelis. Arafat had too much bad blood with them to come to any sort of comprehensive plan that takes care of East Jerusalem, the Gaza, and the West Bank plus the Right of Return for Palestinian foreigners. Time to move on.
(7 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
 | magellan (161)
11/11/2004 | My sense is that it was time for a change. Arafat's death provides an opportunity for progress towards peace in the Middle East. Arafat had been around so long, it just seemed like he had racked up too many political debts to extremist groups to ever be a real leader towards peace.
(5 voted this helpful, 0 funny and 0 agree) |
| 1-16 OF 16 | View All |
