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E-mailYasser Arafat 1929-2004
Nor is it the 25 minutes French President Jacques Chirac stayed by Mr. Arafat's corpse in a French hospital conveying condolences.
Nor Mr. Chirac saying the bearded butcher was "a man of courage and conviction who for 40 years has incarnated the Palestinians' fight for ... their national rights."
"Fight" being French for "terrorism."
Nor United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan being "deeply moved" by the death of the man who rewired children into bombs.
Nor Mr. Annan's inadvertent irony that "President Arafat ... led the Palestinians to accept the principle of peaceful coexistence between Israel and a future Palestinian state."
Nor Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-populated nation, saying Arafat was "a hero to us all" -- except perhaps to the survivors of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972, 21 Israeli school children in 1974, or Leon Klinghoffer, an old man in a wheelchair on the Achille Lauro who was dumped overboard in 1985.
To name a few.
The most disgusting aspect is that the United States would send anyone -- let alone William Burns, the State Department's top Middle East official -- to pay our final respects to the smiling sociopathic serial-killer.
