# 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:** 2
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/21 "2004-11-12T20:12:31Z")
Yasser diverted a huge amount of money ($4 Billion?) that was supposed to help the Palestinian people into secret bank accounts that only he had access to. I guess he doled out some of this money at some point or another, but his death would have made it unattainable. She allowed the PA folks access to Yasser while he was sick but alive only when they promised to give her a golden parachute. Or… she knew the secrets to where they were hidden, and forked them over after the payoff was assured. Ok, the story was in the [New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/20505.htm) but what the heck, I’ll spread a rumor or two. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/22 "2004-11-12T20:35:32Z")
[Hot?](http://62.235.13.231/belgafeed/415257.jpg) What is _wrong_ with you people? ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/23 "2004-11-12T20:55:42Z")
Amen to that. She looks like a shaved, wigged, made-up version of Arafat himself. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/24 "2004-11-12T21:05:18Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > [Hot?](http://62.235.13.231/belgafeed/415257.jpg) What is _wrong_ with you people? Yikes! :eek: It’s a miracle he lived this long! Makes one understand why he prefered to remain in that Ramallah compound all these years… ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/25 "2004-11-12T21:13:00Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Here is a passage taken from a 1987 book by said Spymaster, i.e. General Ion Pacepa, deputy chief of Romania’s intelligence service: “I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the ‘Fedayee,’” Arafat’s code name, explained Munteaunu. “After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the ‘Fedayee’ is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He’s playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena.” In other words, Arafart’s wife was a beard. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/26 "2004-11-12T21:23:06Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > What the heck? I too want a wife 34 years younger than me! Whatever floats your boat, dude. Personally, I don’t think I could bang a girl who won’t be born for another 9 years, but that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/27 "2004-11-12T21:26:40Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > Since I am 24, my 34-years-younger-than-me wife is currently -10 y.o. Is that the ultimate jailbait or what? 😛 I think the ultimate jailbait might be -13 years old. Beat you by 3 years. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/28 "2004-11-12T21:33:02Z")
At what stage of development does a fetus become a viable marriage candidate? Or is that a question fro Great Debates? ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/29 "2004-11-12T21:50:05Z")
Where did all the money originate from? Donations from other ME countries? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/30 "2004-11-12T22:10:32Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > [Hot?](http://62.235.13.231/belgafeed/415257.jpg) What is _wrong_ with you people? I’ve long been struck by her uncanny resemblence to Rachel Dratch. SNL is going to have a real easy time tommorow night. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/31 "2004-11-12T22:12:36Z")
[Linda Tripp](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/120000/images/_120488_linda_tripp_file_pic_150_ap.jpg), sans the glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/32 "2004-11-12T22:23:45Z")
He was paying her $100,000 a month all the years she lived in Paris without him. Personally, it doesn’t seem worth the money. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/33 "2004-11-12T23:20:22Z")
When it comes to cradle-robbing, Arafat was a piker. Heck, Strom Thurmond’s second wife was [44 years younger](http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/26/thurmond.obit/) than he was! ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/34 "2004-11-13T00:35:28Z")
> [@vanilla](#): > > Could none of you imagine that she loved him? 😕 Since he was admired, charismatic, a living symbol and all that, I can believe that. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/35 "2004-11-13T01:09:11Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > [Hot?](http://62.235.13.231/belgafeed/415257.jpg) What is _wrong_ with you people? My eyes! ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/36 "2004-11-13T01:09:24Z")
> [@vanilla](#): > > Could none of you imagine that she loved him? 😕 She loved his money more. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/37 "2004-11-13T01:17:53Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > He was paying her $100,000 a month all the years she lived in Paris without him. > > Personally, it doesn’t seem worth the money. I dunno, if the alternative was having her live with me… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/38 "2004-11-13T03:33:44Z")
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/39 "2004-11-13T04:11:20Z")
I’m sure she loved him as much as Anna Nicole Smith loved her 90-year-old billionaire husband. ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374/40 "2004-11-13T07:24:32Z")
> [@PaulFitzroy](#): > > Here is a passage taken from a 1987 book by said Spymaster, i.e. General Ion Pacepa, deputy chief of Romania’s intelligence service: > > “I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the ‘Fedayee,’” Arafat’s code name, explained Munteaunu. “After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the ‘Fedayee’ is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He’s playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena.” > > In other words, Arafart’s wife was a beard. ::Hangs head in shame at having to ask this question :: Umm, what’s a beard ? Besides that thing that grows on faces I mean. ::hangs head in shame whilst awaing an answer :: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arafats-wife/274374.md?page=3)