Arafat partially emerges from brain dead coma

[Wolfie]

Arafat Opens Eyes, Communicating - Israeli Report

Sat Nov 6, 3:18 AM ET

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) has partially emerged from his coma in a French hospital, opening his eyes and communicating with his doctors, an Israeli newspaper Web site said Saturday citing Palestinian sources.

YNET, the Web site of the leading Israeli daily Yediot Ahronoth, quoted a senior Palestinian official who visited Arafat overnight as saying the president had regained some control of his limbs and was seen moving in bed.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...wake_dc#1234567

[Redneck4sure]

Rumor has it that the Democrats are going to try the same technique on Kerry but are not hopeful of positive results since he has been braindead all his life.

[method77]

talks between Israel and Palestine are in shitty condition at this point but if he dies things will get even worse.

[Wolfie]

They should consult the Republican Party for advice since those guys have had the market cornered on brain dead leadership for the last four years.

[method77]

the american policy on this -the last four years- is: We support Sharon. Period.

[Redneck4sure]

That has pretty much always been the policy.

If Kerry had been elected it would have been a balanced policy.

This week for Sharon, next week for Arafat, next week for Sharon, next week for Arafat.

[DudeAsInCool]

If Kerry had been elected it would have been a balanced policy.

This week for Sharon, next week for Arafat, next week for Sharon, next week for Arafat.

The Bush administration has made absolutely no progress and they have no policy...

[Redneck4sure]

If Kerry had been elected it would have been a balanced policy.

This week for Sharon, next week for Arafat, next week for Sharon, next week for Arafat.

The Bush administration has made absolutely no progress and they have no policy...

maybe but you know............no flip flop!!

[Wolfie]

If Kerry had been elected it would have been a balanced policy.

This week for Sharon, next week for Arafat, next week for Sharon, next week for Arafat.

The Bush administration has made absolutely no progress and they have no policy...

maybe but you know............no flip flop!!

Yep, the steady course of downward spiral is for Dubya. No flip flop, just straight down the tube.

[method77]

That has pretty much always been the policy.

it's true that the american policy was always the same but Clinton tried to change that. He made big efforts for the camp david deal between Arafat and Israel (don't remember the leader). Indifada was stopped for many years and it resumed a few months after Bush and Sharon took power

[Kooperman]

That has pretty much always been the policy.

it's true that the american policy was always the same but Clinton tried to change that. He made big efforts for the camp david deal between Arafat and Israel (don't remember the leader). Indifada was stopped for many years and it resumed a few months after Bush and Sharon took power

Clinton has stated in the past that Arafat shot down any chance for an agreement at Camp David. He refused to agree to any compromise because "he was afraid someone would shoot him." Clinton was disgusted with him, telling him that any statesman in that area of the world knew that assassination was always a possibility, but to do nothing trying to improve relations meant that it would always remain that way.

[method77]

I didn't say Arafat agreed. For various reasons (some made sense) he didn't. I posted above just to show that American policy is not always the same.

Indifada indeed stopped those years.

[Kooperman]

method, I wasn't implying that you stated anything incorrectly. My post was simply to amplify on Clinton's Camp David experience with Arafat.

[method77]

yes you did.

Anyway, the peace process looks veeeeeeeeeeeeery far away now that Arafat is out.

Coreya (spelling?) and the rest of the Palestinian leadership along with Bush and Sharon is the worst possible formula for peace.

I don't think it's an overeaction when I say that this is the worst period for the "Holy Lands" since the Romans

[Kooperman]

When George Bush "smokes 'em out" things will be forever peaceful.

[method77]

Let's see what happens in the next Israel election. A very large part of the politicians and the public is against the Sharon moves. Disaproval numbers are the highest ever I believe. He already made some moves that prove exactly that with the Golan policy changes

[method77]

Nabil Shaath is giving a press interview right now. I'm watching it live and he just said tha Arafat is still alive but there is nothing more that doctors can do so that means that he will could die any minute

[method77]

Many sources say he is dead. It's not official but more and more news sources are reporting it.

[Kooperman]

I hope Saturday Night Live picks up on this goofy-ass story like Chevy Chase did long ago with General Franco:

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

The death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the first season of Saturday Night Live in 1975 served as the source of one of the first catch phrases from SNL to enter the general lexicon.

Franco lingered near death for weeks before dying. On slow news days, United States network television news casters sometimes noted that Franco was still alive, or not yet dead. The imminent death of Franco was a headline story on the NBC news for a number of weeks prior to his death on November 20.

After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on Saturday Night Live's comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quote from Richard Nixon praising Franco as a good friend of the United States; as an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco standing alongside Adolf Hitler.

From that point on, Chase made it clear that SNL would get the last laugh at Franco's expense. "This breaking news just in", Chase would announce-- "General ssimo Francisco Franco is still dead!" The top story of the news segment for several weeks running was that General simo Francisco Franco was still dead. Chase would repeat the story at the end of the news segment, aided by Garrett Morris, "head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing", whose "aid" in repeating the story involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the headline.

The phrase may owe something to "General Grant Still Dead", one of the examples of undesirable newspaper headlines in Headlines and Deadlines, a handbook for newspaper copy editors by Robert Garst and Theodore M. Bernstein. Another possible precedent is in an issue of National Lampoon from 1973 that began with a picture of Eisenhower waving, with the caption "Hi kids, I'm still dead!"

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/G...o-is-still-dead

[Redneck4sure]

I would like to point out that despite popular wishes, I am not dead yet.

[Kooperman]

I would like to point out that despite popular wishes, I am not dead yet.

You just smell that way......... :(

[Redneck4sure]

You just smell that way......... :(

look that way too.

[Kooperman]

That was pre-Yosemite Sam reincarnation

[Redneck4sure]

That was pre-Yosemite Sam reincarnation

Yes. I stole that pic from you and used it as an avatar a yr ago at ZP. It and my current avatar accurately depict the real me. :)

[Kooperman]

Yasser Arafat is now officially dead.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._ea/obit_arafat

Speculation is that he will now become an advisor in the revamped Bush cabinet.