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United World News November 12 2004

IMARGO Journalist Switzerland

The Lion of Palestine had a heart, which so obviously is missing in the Israel/US leaders.


The unfortunate death of Arafat at this time

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Can the US and Israel pay for the lives of Children?


Some say Arafat didn’t do what he was supposed to do, in reality he accomplished the mission. God, Allah, Great Spirit, Divine Conscience, Creator of the great Universe call it what you wish. Arafat truly completed his mission he became the father of the Palestinians, the only one they ever had. A great leader of the Palestinians for that reason the Sharon and US government vilified him, tried to kill him, ignored him, imprisoned him, tried to render him ineffective, but all of it failed pitifully, he, Arafat stood his ground.
We see an incredible scene in Ramallah an out poring of raw emotion, a most amazing scene. The Little Big Man would have loved this where ever he is if he can see this, he is smiling.



In a letter sent on 14 October to Kofi Annan, the Fallujah Shura Council, which administers the city, said: "In Fallujah, [the Americans] have created a new vague target: al-Zarqawi. Almost a year has elapsed since they created this new pretext and whenever they destroy houses, mosques, restaurants, and kill children and women, they said: 'We have launched a successful operation against al-Zarqawi.' The people of Fallujah assure you that this person, if he exists, is not in Fallujah . . . and we have no links to any groups supporting such inhuman behaviour. We appeal to you to urge the UN [to prevent] the new massacre which the Americans and the puppet government are planning to start soon in Fallujah, as well as many parts of the country."

A study estimating that 100,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the Anglo-American invasion. Eighty-four per cent of the deaths were caused by the actions of the Americans and the British, and 95 per cent of these were killed by air attacks and artillery fire, most of whom were women and children.

Since 1948 when Israel occupied and stole Palestinian lands, Palestinians have struggled and Arafat kept their struggle in the world’s eye, he kept it alive, he didn’t let the world forget. It is hard imagine Palestine with out the Palestinian father, Yasser Arafat.
Bush and Sharon could ignore Arafat, but they could never negate him, he was there in their face even when they held him prisoner in Ramallah for the last 3 years.

The day when Arafat will be interred in Haram al.Sharif Cemetary the Temple Mound in Jerusalem will come.
A hand full of sand from Jerusalem is being placed in the grave with Yasser Arafat. A lot of anger prevents the last simple wish of a man to be fulfilled.

There will be a day when the Palestinians will have retribution for their father’s lands Israel has stolen and occupied since 1948.

Just because Arafat is gone Israel is not going to suddenly be a peacemaker. Israel doesn’t want peace, really.
The Palestinians face enormous difficulties and it will be an overwhelming task to achieve the creation of a United Palestinian State, so brutally fragmented and destroyed by Israel.

Shala Arafat returns to his people. His demise, too fast, he walked out of Ramallah under his own strength. Then deteriorated in to death rapidly.
After the burial ceremony in Cairo, Arafat then will return to Ramallah for burial.
Arafat who incredibly survived a plane crash, now we have to accept the fact Arafat has really died.
He died with out realizing his dream, as do most of us.
Sharon regarded Arafat as a terrorist. We experience great reluctance to distinguish who is a terrorist, for example from Sharon, Bush, and Blair.

The international community has to realize Arafat was not the problem, the Israeli military occupation is the problem. Israel controls every aspect of Palestinian lives.
This is proven by the sad fact that Sharon denied Arafat a burial in Jerusalem.
Israel doesn’t want peace.
Arafat never quite got over Yitshac Rabin`s death Rabin was assassinated by a Jew.
Arafat considered Rabin a friend.

In the past Israel had Arafat to blame, let’s see who they are going to blame now. If Israel really wanted peace they and their US partner Bush could easily make it so.
Bush was reelected just a few days before Arafat`s death, coincidence or designer death?

Yasser Arafat is leaving a profound vacuum, no more excuses for Israel or America. Who are they going to blame “this is the moment of truth”.

We have this clear historic information for You-------Interestingly some people claim every thing for them selves in the name of God even if it is far from the truth.

However, these Islamic religious feelings were concretized in the course of subsequent history. Jerusalem surrendered to the Arabs under ’Umar, the second Caliph, in the year A.D. 637, and continued to be in Arab hands for nearly 900 years, and in Muslim hands for nearly 1,300 years, with a break for more than one thousand years when Jerusalem was in the hands of the Crusaders. Jerusalem then was not a Jewish city; it was a completely Christian one. The Arabs did not take it from the Jews, who after the years A.D. 70 and 135 had almost entirely disappeared. Nothing of the Jewish Temple remained after A.D. 70, and the Jews, after the last rebellion in A.D. 132-5, ceased to have any significant existence in Palestine as a whole, and from that time, ‘the Jews were destined to be a kingdom not of this earth’ [p. 14, The Decadence of Judaism in Our Own Time by Moshe Menuhin, Beirut, 1969]. In the covenant between the Muslims and the Patriarch of Jerusalem, it was stipulated to the Christians that ‘no Jews shall reside with them’. History records, on the authority of two Greek historians, Eutychus and Theophanes, and of Muslim historians, that ’Umar was led to the spot from which the Prophet ascended into heaven. ‘The precinct was encumbered with debris of the recent Persian destruction and with the rubbish of the Christian city to such an extent that the gate at the southwest by which they entered was almost totally filled up. But that presented no obstacle to ’Umar, and the proud prelate felt obliged to crawl first on all fours and clear a way for his guest. It was then that ’Umar inaugurated the clearing of the famous rock above the cave. The pollution here apparently prevented its immediate consecration, so that the first sanctuary of Islam in Jerusalem was on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque’ [pp. 219-20, A History of Jerusalem by J. Gray, Robert Hale, London, 1969]. John Gray adds to this that ‘it is recorded that as ’Umar stood on the site of the Temple in the shabby patched shift of clothes in which he had ridden up from Medina to Syria, the Patriarch Sophronius shed tears and muttered into his beard the quotation from the Book of Daniel (12:11) about the abomination of desolation standing, where he should not, as Theophanes casts an invidious glance at ’Umar’s interest in the holy places also of Christianity. “Diabolical hypocrisy” is the venomous remark of the Byzantine Chronicler, but this is in itself evidence of the moderation of the great-souled, wise ruler of Islam, who in reverent simplicity regarded Jerusalem as the Holy City of both faiths’ [p. 220, ibid.]. It is also recorded that it was a converted Jew who helped the Caliph in finding the Rock [p. 169, Jerusalem by Michel Join-Lambert, Elek, London, 1966].


Ingrid Margo
The Michael Moore of Switzerland