Originally posted by: tallest1
How is Israel going to make this worse? The only way they know how- by being idiots. Arafat wishes to be buried in Israeli terriroty in a sacred place. Now, I don't think that's asking too much and in the interests of peace, no matter how much of a dick Arafat was, I think that it's a fair request to grant. Partiuclarly because once Arafat dies he'll be to Palestine what Kennedy is to us- immortal and God-like. Thus it would behoove of Ariel Sharon to pay attention to Palestinian popular sentiment. But then that's like asking Bush to pay attention to peace protesters. So in a display of defiance the Israeli government flat out refused Arafat's burial wishes.
Pretty bad, eh? It gets worse. Back when Arafat's health seemed to be temporarily improving in the Paris hospital the Israeli government began publicly making their own funeral plans for Arafat. To cremate him. For one thing, Islamic edict demands that the body be buried- BURIED- within 24 hours. This is an islut to Arafat and highly disresepctful. This is not so much for his own sake, I am far more concerned about the perception in the eyes of the Palestinian people who see Arafat in such high regard and might not take too kindly to his funerary rites being in contravention with both his wishes and Islamic law.
So congratulations Likud Party of Israel, you've succeeded in turning what promised to be an already turbulent period into a flaming sack of crap.
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My god, Israel is again blamed here.
I just heard that an Israeli-Arab member of the Israeli parliament just started to cry in there, because of Arafat's death. and I think to myself - where are all those who say Israel is not a true democracy?
You know what? even the US - the greatest democracy on earth - wouldn't allow such a thing to happen...
All that Israel gets in return for maintaining a true democracy is people who call it racist and apartheid.
