Friday, November 12, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Yasser Arafat: Why Many Palestinians Don't Miss Him - 'Six years have passed since the death of Yasser Arafat and it does not seem that many Palestinians really miss the man. The number of Palestinians who show up at public rallies to commemorate Arafat has actually been declining year after year. Arafat, as far as disillusioned Palestinian are concerned, should be remembered as a leader who led his people from one disaster to another. He died in November 2004, leaving behind scorched earth and tremendous suffering and pain...'
