# Arafat's wife. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374 "2004-11-12T13:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/1 "2004-11-12T13:57:55Z")
Why the fuck did he have such a nice looking wife??? OK, she’s not a pageant queen or anything, but still she’s way pretier than an old fart like Arafat deserved. And she’s 34 years younger than him :mad: What the heck? I too want a wife 34 years younger than me! ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/2 "2004-11-12T13:59:43Z")
I wouldn’t. Don’t much like the idea of changing nappies on my wife… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/3 "2004-11-12T14:04:09Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > What the heck? I too want a wife 34 years younger than me! If I tried to get a wife 34 years younger than I, I’d be arrested and have to register in every town I lived in. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/4 "2004-11-12T14:04:41Z")
[Control nearly a billion dollars in secret bank accounts](http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/international/middleeast/11arafat.html?ex=1100840400&en=22aa2d350f742b88&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1), and you too can have a trophy wife: > [@](#): > > Last year, an audit of Palestinian Authority finances by the International Monetary Fund disclosed that Mr. Arafat had diverted $900 million in public funds to a bank account he controlled from 1995 to 2002. Most of the cash, diverted from budget revenues, went to a variety of commercial ventures. > > Last February, the French government opened a tax and money-laundering investigation into the deposit of about 11.5 million euros, nearly $15 million at today’s rates, into the accounts of Mrs. Arafat between July 2002 and July 2003. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/5 "2004-11-12T14:08:35Z")
I just saw the words dog and arafats wife, and came to a foregone conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/6 "2004-11-12T14:08:47Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > I wouldn’t. Don’t much like the idea of changing nappies on my wife… Well, if you listen to the anti-gay marriage crowd, once gay marraiges are allowed, marriages to two year-olds will not only be permitted, but mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/7 "2004-11-12T14:12:33Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Well, if you listen to the anti-gay marriage crowd, once gay marraiges are allowed, marriages to two year-olds will not only be permitted, but mandatory. What do you call that then? trophy-baby? Anyway she made a cuckold out of him. Everybody knows she’s been banging her oily Lebanese playboy. What good is a 34 years younger wife, if she is 4000 kilometres away getting banged by someone else? Think Arafat was into phone-sex? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/8 "2004-11-12T14:19:09Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > Think Arafat was into phone-sex? Probably not, considering what happened to Mohammed Abayat. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/9 "2004-11-12T14:29:32Z")
It also doesn’t hurt that the Palistinian Authority is going to pay her $22mil a year for allowing them to access the secret accounts that Yassar stuffed all that stolen (oops… _diverted_) money into. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/10 "2004-11-12T14:31:36Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > It also doesn’t hurt that the Palistinian Authority is going to pay her $22mil a year for allowing them to access the secret accounts that Yassar stuffed all that stolen (oops… _diverted_) money into. I figured that’s why she went nutso in Paris: it was a tactic in her campaign to ensure the gravy train didn’t come to a screeching halt. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/11 "2004-11-12T14:34:59Z")
There is some speculation, too, that Arafat’s wife was a bigger beard than the one on his chin. The strongest assertions to this come from Nicolae Ceaucescu’s former spymaster. This is also the source for much of the speculation that Arafat may have died from AIDS. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/12 "2004-11-12T14:35:08Z")
Hell, I think she deserves the money. Would _you_ like to be poked by Yasser? _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/13 "2004-11-12T14:42:07Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > I wouldn’t. Don’t much like the idea of changing nappies on my wife… > [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > If I tried to get a wife 34 years younger than I, I’d be arrested and have to register in every town I lived in. Since I am 24, my 34-years-younger-than-me wife is currently -10 y.o. Is that the ultimate jailbait or what? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/14 "2004-11-12T15:41:47Z")
Well, since I just turned 34, I better get my ass down to the maternity ward. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/15 "2004-11-12T19:44:03Z")
Could none of you imagine that she loved him? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/16 "2004-11-12T19:47:26Z")
> [@vanilla](#): > > Could none of you imagine that she loved him? 😕 Serious answer: I think that a lot of us have a difficult time imagining _anyone_ loving that man. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/17 "2004-11-12T19:48:05Z")
> [@vanilla](#): > > Could none of you imagine that she loved him? 😕 No. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/18 "2004-11-12T19:49:19Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > Why the fuck did he have such a nice looking wife? The same reason Laura Bush doesn’t look like a trailer-park ho? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/19 "2004-11-12T19:51:17Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > It also doesn’t hurt that the Palistinian Authority is going to pay her $22mil a year for allowing them to access the secret accounts that Yassar stuffed all that stolen (oops… _diverted_) money into. What’s this about? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/20 "2004-11-12T19:51:48Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > The same reason Laura Bush doesn’t look like a trailer-park ho? This is, like, one of those money/power things, right? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374.md?page=2)