# "The Jews killed Arafat!" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 22, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155 "2004-11-22T19:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/81 "2004-11-23T14:36:00Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > But why is there only one side of the story on this board? Because we are all (except you obviously) controlled by Israel. Sorry, nothing personal. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/82 "2004-11-23T14:40:26Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > I thought you had her cryogenically frozen in a vault hidden under the “Pirates of the Carribean” attraction at Disneyland. > > Or was that someone else? And if it was, did you kill him too? Oo, with a radio controlled synthetic heart and animatronic limbs? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/83 "2004-11-23T14:42:12Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. > > . One boards nut is anothers charter member ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/84 "2004-11-23T14:45:54Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Israel may be brutal toward the Palestinians, but the country’s government isn’t stupid. Confining him to his compound and holding him under seige for years could be called stupid, it generated a lot more sympathy for him. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/85 "2004-11-23T14:47:44Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Is it possible that Arafat had advanced AIDS? While I usually associate the look in his eyes in recent years with AIDS I’ve also seen it in people who have cancer from other causes,\* but that would explain why his nephew is saying that the doctors couldn’t find the cause. French MDs are pretty damned good and I suspect they know perfectly well what killed him. > [@](#): > > Have the French released any detailed pathology reports? Not publicly and I believe French law prohibits them from doing so if the family says no. As such news would detract from the image they are creating of a mythic Arafat it’s probably unlikely we’ll know anything until a French reporter sneaks in and steals his chart. It is fortunate that French reporters are good, too, and love a good scandal. - - What, you can’t tell somebody has terminal cancer from a look at his eyes? That wide-eyed, haunted look stands out like a sore thumb. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/86 "2004-11-23T14:49:37Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Confining him to his compound and holding him under seige for years could be called stupid, it generated a lot more sympathy for him. Really? Didn’t seem that way to me; seemed to me that it marginalized him. Where did it generate sympathy for him? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/87 "2004-11-23T15:32:12Z")
> [@](#): > > There are several credible reports (one from the Rumanian Secret Police) No, from one defector from the Romanian secret service. and no actual proof. and of course, so what if he was? What business is it of yours? will you be making the same allegations when Sharon dies? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/88 "2004-11-23T15:48:36Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > You think? And here I thought he was FedExed. This fits the facts. We know he had cirrhosis, so he was effectively de-livered. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/89 "2004-11-23T15:49:25Z")
I love how we got from here: > [@Reeder](#): > > If Israel did it. And I’m not saying they did. Just if. > > American tax dollars paid for it. To here: > [@Reeder](#): > > Well fuck you asshole. > > My gripe is that mine and your tax dollars are used to kill Palestinians. without even a scrap of evidence. Directly from paranoia-fueled speculation to accusation. And **Left Hand of Dorkness** - “pissing on the shoulders of gentiles” is beyond brilliant. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/90 "2004-11-23T15:57:05Z")
Actually, on rereading the thread, I see that **Reeder** ’s later post could be interpreted as objecting to Israel’s fight against terrorists in general, not an alleged poisoning of the Dear Departed. My apologies for the misconstrual. **Reeder** , you are still a fruitcake and wrong on every substantive point, but you were not specifically accusing the US. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/91 "2004-11-23T17:11:09Z")
Reeder’s just envious of us Jews who control the media, and investment markets and banks and American Politics, and that the Zionist Conspiracy allowed them to escape the twin towers attacks on 9/11. :rolleyes: You really are a nut, Reeder. Sam ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/92 "2004-11-23T18:43:15Z")
> [@sevastopol](#): > > > [@Allesan](#): > > > > - but as a Doper I feel the need to correct erronious facts whenever I encounter them. > > I don’t. > p.s. > Hang in there **Reeder**. Wow, what a surprise, you don’t care about the truth, especially if it gets in the way of some good Israel bashing. Nobody could’ve expected that from you I mean, **sevastapol** , a freakin’ idjit? Nawwwww… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/93 "2004-11-23T19:23:37Z")
By the way, you notice the Pope and Billy Graham aren’t looking too good these days? We’re waitin’ for them to get _juuuuuust_ old enough . . . Then \*poison 'em! Bwa-hahahahaha!\* ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/94 "2004-11-23T19:27:31Z")
Israel would poison Billy Graham??!!! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/95 "2004-11-23T19:27:51Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > By the way, you notice the Pope and Billy Graham aren’t looking too good these days? We’re waitin’ for them to get _juuuuuust_ old enough . . . Then \*poison 'em! > > Bwa-hahahahaha!\* Did you guys do Ronald Reagan, or was that the terrorists? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/96 "2004-11-23T19:32:11Z")
“…but… I didn’t eat the fish.” ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/97 "2004-11-23T19:43:37Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Did you guys do Ronald Reagan, or was that the terrorists? Do Reagan? Man, he was old and leathery and smelled funny, who’d want to do him? Oh, oh! I see. Yeah, we capped that punkass. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/98 "2004-11-23T19:54:30Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Do Reagan? Man, he was old and leathery and smelled funny, who’d want to do him? > Oh, oh! > I see. > Yeah, we capped that punkass. “Capped that punkass”? What is this, _Goys in the Hood_? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/99 "2004-11-23T19:58:46Z")
Jew Tang Clan reprezeeeeeent! ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jews-killed-arafat/276155/100 "2004-11-23T20:28:40Z")
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