"Now is not the time or the place, my hyena"

A nephew of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says the family will soon release a French medical report revealing Arafat’s cause of death.Naser al-Qudwa says the document is being translated from French before it is released.

Al-Qudwa says the report will answer “many questions,” as it is the Palestinian people’s right to get a clear answer about how Arafat died. The document has not previously been seen in Arabic.

The report by French doctors describes a platelet disorder and speculates on its cause, al-Qudwa says. The doctors ruled out cancer and an acute infection, he told Ma’an.

A third possibility was poisoning, al-Qudwa says, but the records show that doctors were unable to conclusively determine what poison, if any, was in Arafat’s system.

“We have said that it is poisoning,” he hinted.

Poisoning, my a** :

People with HIV often have problems with their levels of platelets, cells in the blood that help with clotting.

When the body slows its production of platelets, and/or when platelets are destroyed at a higher-than-normal rate, a condition called thrombocytopenia occurs. People with this condition bleed and bruise easily.

 (hat tip: Challah)

Before reading on, can you guess who she blames?

Correct.

Arafat says a “campaign” against her aims to distort the image of her late husband and Palestine. The campaign, according to her, was launched just as Palestine was readying to join the UN. In the Israeli media, she said, her case has attracted considerable attention “in order to distort the image of Palestine.”

“If Yasser Arafat were alive, he would tell me this doesn’t deserve a response.”

If Yasser Arafat were alive, he would also tell her “Not tonight. I have a headache hyena.”

This little piggy stayed at home

This little piggy had an arrest warrant issued against her..

Suha Arafat, widow of late PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, is wanted by officials in Tunisia for alleged corruption, AFP reported on Monday.

Tunisian Justice Ministry spokesman Kadhem Zine al Abidine told the French news agency that a warrant was issued for the 48-year-old Arafat, who was a citizen of Tunisia, until her citizenship was stripped in 2007.

The allegations go back to a 2006 business deal, when Suha Arafat had a fallout with former first lady of Tunisia over the establishment of an international school in Tunis, AFP quoted Tunisian newspapers as saying.

In 2007, Suha was declared persona non grata in Tunisia and had her citizenship revoked, reportedly by presidential decree. Suha was reported to be living in Malta, at least several months a year, where she owns a home.

Since the ouster of former Tunisian dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, a number of former regime officials have been charged with corruption.

Excerpt:

The key issue in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and in the wider Israeli-Arab dispute, is the issue that dare not speak its name, the pervasive and profound anti-Semitism that permeates the contemporary Islamic world, especially the Middle East.

This is the real barrier to peace, and people who are concerned with peace will try to ameliorate it.

It is analytically false, historically untrue and conceptually impossible that all this anti-Semitism has arisen from Israel’s sins, real and imagined.

Read the whole thing, which contains, amongst other things, an interesting quote from a former Indonesian President about Yasser Arafat.

Even at the age of 88, Shimon Peres is unstoppable. The Israeli president has begun promoting a new vision: An Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem, which will be shaped as the Jewish-German scientist’s head.

According to the plan, the museum will display the entire bequest of the theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, including his writings, inventions, clothes, study, telescope and even a mold of his teeth.
  
While sifting through hundreds of documents at Heathrow Airport, British museum curators discover original landing card of father of modern physics, documenting his escape from Nazi Germany
 
The first person to come up with the idea to build the Einstein museum in Jerusalem was Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser, who thought the museum should be shaped as the scientist’s brain. Peres fell for the idea, but came up with a design of his own.

I kind of like the idea and think the palestinians should implement something similar for the Arafat Museum.

New hotness: Dahlan poisoned Arafat

Fatah has accused ousted party strongman Muhammad Dahlan of “having a hand” in poisoning late President Yasser Arafat, Arabic-language media reported Saturday.

Arafat died in a Paris hospital in November 2004. The exact cause of his death remains a mystery, but popular belief among Palestinians holds that he was poisoned.

According to Al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language news site, Fatah’s commission of inquiry also found that Dahlan was linked to assassination attempts on other Palestinian leaders and that he had planned a coup in the West Bank.

Senior Fatah leaders Azzam Al-Ahmad, At-Tayyib Abdul-Rahim, Othman Abu Gharbiyya and Nabil Shaath submitted the findings of the inquiry, according to the news site.

Palestinian ambassadors were urged to avoid dealing with Dahlan and Interpol was asked to help arrest the former strongman, the report said.

Palestinian Authority sources told the news site that the West Bank government had come under international and regional pressure not to pursue Dahlan.

Dahlan was expelled from Fatah’s governing body in June. The party rejected an appeal against the decision by Dahlan, who once headed the PA’s feared preventative security forces.

Shortly after Dahlan’s appeal failed, PA forces raided his Ramallah home and detained several of his bodyguards.

Dahlan was voted out of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, the party’s governing body, on June 12, for suspected “criminal acts” that were not specified.

Reports leaked earlier this year said the former Fatah strongman in Gaza was suspected of building a private armed militia in the West Bank.

Dahlan denied the allegations, responding with an online video message.

“A coup against whom? Do we have an authority in Ramallah to coup against? We are under occupation, one female soldier rules over the West Bank; the Civil Administration governs the West Bank,” he said in June.

Dahlan was formerly a leading Fatah figure known for his fierce opposition to the Hamas movement. He led a merciless crackdown on the group in the 1990s, rounding up thousands of Islamists who refused to recognize the legitimacy of the newly-created Palestinian Authority.

But he fell from grace in June 2007 after the humiliating rout of his forces by Hamas fighters during days of fierce street battles in Gaza, when Hamas expelled Fatah forces from the territory.

Two years later, he returned to the political stage when he was elected to the Fatah central committee in August 2009.

But in December 2010, he was suspended from the committee which said it had set up a commission of inquiry to examine his finances and claims he tried to set up a personal militia.

I think this is all a misunderstanding. I don’t think Dahlan had a hand in Arafat’s death, but rather darling. But you may know him as hyena.

And I doubt it was just a hand.

This should read Arafat’s aids: New information on president’s death

Don’t thank me. I’m a giver.

#10 (0 votes) Tie between:

Some palestinian security officer and Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe (first posted Oct 21st)

Some child from an advertisement on the new and improved Jerusalem Post site, and a troll (first posted Jan 26th)

#8 (1 vote): US Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (first posted March 9th)

#7 (2 votes): Tie between:

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the robot from Lost in Space (first posted June 14th).

Some anonymous UN dude and actor Jeff Garlin (first posted Sept 24th).

Businessman and President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, and Seinfeld actor Richard Fancy (first posted Aug 31st).

Gaza flotillards Dror Feiler & Mattias Gardell and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman & Hollywood actor William H Macy (first posted June 4th)

#3 (7 votes): Wide-eyed terror enabler Huwaida Arraf and a Picasso painting (first posted June 17th)

#2 (9 votes): Some palestinian man and a watermelon (first posted June 24th)

Drum roll, please..

#1 ( 29 votes): Yasser Arafat and Helen Thomas (first posted June 8th)

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(hat tip: Lila)

What better way to start the new year than by mocking a dead terrorist?

Update: Mrs Aussie Dave showcases some Photoshop skills.

What is the best Israellycool Separated at Birth for 2010?

Like I did last year, I’ll let you all decide on the final composition and order of the Top 10. All you have to do is vote in the poll underneath the following entries. The poll closes December 31st.

I’ll publish the final list based on your votes the first thing next year.

Some palestinian security officer and Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe (first posted Oct 21st)

Some anonymous UN dude and actor Jeff Garlin (first posted Sept 24th).

Businessman and President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, and Seinfeld actor Richard Fancy (first posted Aug 31st).

Some palestinian man and a watermelon (first posted June 24th)

Wide-eyed terror enabler Huwaida Arraf and a Picasso painting (first posted June 17th)

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the robot from Lost in Space (first posted June 14th).

Yasser Arafat and Helen Thomas (first posted June 8th)

Gaza flotillards Dror Feiler & Mattias Gardell and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman & Hollywood actor William H Macy (first posted June 4th)

US Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (first posted March 9th)

Some child from an advertisement on the new and improved Jerusalem Post site, and a troll (first posted Jan 26th)

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Best of 2006: Top 10 Separated at Births