A great leader of the oppressed has passed away. All hail him ! Like all humans, he was not perfect, and made errors of judgement. But he remainded focused on the end goal for his people: freedom, equality, and justice! All hail Rais Yasser Arafat.
** Arafat's body begins final return **
France holds a ceremony to bid farewell to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as his body is flown to Cairo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4002909.stm
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I think what really floored me was just after his death Jay Leno referred to Arafat as a terrorist in an offhand kind of way. I don't pay much attention, I'll admit, but I hadn't had any idea the mainstream American dialogue about him had gone *that* far to the right.
~Summer
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