# Yassir Arafat is Dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880 "2004-11-09T19:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/21 "2004-11-10T17:20:41Z")
Sheesh. And they said John Kerry flip-flopped. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/22 "2004-11-10T18:16:06Z")
Now I feel better. I’m not the only one thinking of Monty Python when I hear the news reports. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/23 "2004-11-10T20:13:20Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > “Paging Doctor Kevorkian. Dr. Kevorkian, pick up international line 2…” If only Arafat had the balls to order his own. ---
**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 10, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/24 "2004-11-10T20:25:19Z")
The man’s made a career of coming back from irrelevancy… why would a little thing like death stop him?! I’m amusing myself by imagining that Allah keeps sending him back from heaven and the devil doesn’t want him declaring a palestinian state in hell either. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/25 "2004-11-10T20:28:39Z")
Yassir Arafat’s dead. No, no, no, no, He’s outside with Itzak Rabin. Yassir Arafat’s dead. No, no, no, no, He’s outside with Itzhak Rabin. He’ll put a bomb on your plane, Makes peace agreements that he breaks, And he never learned to shave, Yassir Arafat. Yassir Arafat. [sub]What? I’m the only Moody Blues fan here?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/26 "2004-11-10T20:31:51Z")
We were Leary. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/27 "2004-11-11T03:55:37Z")
OK, folks, he not merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead. Announced in Paris around 10:50 EST. I’m chortling with grief right now. ---
**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/28 "2004-11-11T03:57:54Z")
Breaking News on CNN. > **[CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos](https://www.cnn.com/)** > > View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/29 "2004-11-11T04:10:01Z")
The [Sydney Morning Herald](http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/Arafat-pronounced-dead/2004/11/10/1100021883516.html) is announcing his death. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/30 "2004-11-11T04:10:57Z")
They just announced his death on the TV. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/31 "2004-11-11T04:12:07Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > Saw a sudden blurb on CourtTV. “The end of an era.” “End of an Ara” would’ve been funnier. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/32 "2004-11-11T04:37:07Z")
Not going to rejoice in any man’s death but Lordy, for this day and every one thereafter, the prospects seem to shine so much brighter. What a contemptable, murderous, ill reasoned bastard he was. And now he’s dead. Rarely have I felt less empathy for a soul. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/33 "2004-11-11T13:01:16Z")
The good die young and a coward dies a thousand deaths. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/34 "2004-11-11T13:40:59Z")
I was beginning to think if was a case of Schrodinger’s Arafat. Is he dead or isn’t he? I guess someone finally opened the box to check. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/35 "2004-11-11T13:45:09Z")
,afetr them…the good is oft interred with their bones?. Seriously, could a WORSE character than Arafat emerge to lead the Palestinians? I’m swure that bad as he was, arafat was not stupid! What are the chances that the leadership will pass to a real mad dog? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880/36 "2004-11-11T15:54:01Z")
Yes he’s dead. It was a conspiracy. He’s pining for the fnords. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassir-arafat-is-dead/273880.md?page=1)