Bettye, hi
You may forward the piece. I cannot offer that I have disdain.
I dont know what I have anymore. For the media, yes, I have
disappointment. Building an icon out of a man known to be a pedophile,
engaging in behaviors we find culturally wrong, I shake my head. I do
acknowledge hope as he presented himself to his people is lost but the details-
the details are so so important and forgotten. Almost makes me want to
curl up and cry.
Telling the truth as it is without bias is so easy.
I did note the irony in his death being announced on Veterans Day. I
was at the wall with the vietnam soldiers. We did discuss the irony.
For the moment, at least, I will gather my breath.....
Love as always
Carrie
Hi Carrie
Thanks so much for sharing. I can certainly understand your personal
distain for this godfather of modern terrorism. You have said it so
well. I am sick of hearing our crazy liberal media talking about him as if
he were a hero. It he had gotten his wish to be buried on the Temple
Mount, I think I would have joined the holy war to remove his disgusting filthy
body from that holy place.
Do you mind if I forward your piece to my big Republican e-mail list
exactly as you sent it to me? Many of these people read with great
approval your piece about our Operation Iraqi School Children and our Sgt.
Danny.
How appropriate that he should die on our Veteran's day (many of whom he
helped to kill) and the midnight after your brother's birthday.
Yes, God is good.
Love, Bettye Chambers
Buford, GA
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Subject: press release ARAFAT IS DEAD THERE IS A GOD
November 10, 2004 Contact: Carrie Devorah FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 011 202 785
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ARAFAT IS DEAD- THERE IS A GOD I am not silent about Arafat's death.
I have no energy to celebrate the passing of a madman. I am worn from
watching, until I could not watch anymore, media coverage glorifying throughout
the night of his dastardly handiwork. I had no emotion when person after
person was brought on camera praising the devil's incarnate without one voice
from the families of the murdered. And I listened as the roll call began
of prominent enemies of Israel dignifying him with comments other than what
should have been uttered, "no comment."
Watch. Listen. As the enemies of Israel declare themselves by
honoring Arafat. Clinton. Chirac. Kofi Anan. The list
will grow. As will the tires burning in Ramallah. Not
Palestine. Ramallah. I shake my head watching as media continues to
bury history with badly researched articles spinning Transjordan, Palestine, off
newsprint, into a virtual existence. How can they forget that Palestine
exists today filled with Jews, Christians and Muslims. Arafat was only
about expulsion of the Jewish people from a corner of Palestine. One
murder at a time.
Dancing on Arafat's grave will not bring back my brother. Nor will it
bring back the dead he built his career on. Nor will it provide for his 7
orphaned children. They could not celebrate Chezi's birthday with him on
November 8th. How quickly Arafat's crimes are forgotten.
How sad the
poverty Abu Amman sunk his people both sides of the green line into goes
ignored.
All of 5'2 Arafat will never be a giant. He is a murderer. Of
mice and men.
I am avenging my brother's murder. I will continue to by writing,
educating and telling the world what they are seeing or choosing to
ignore. In Judaism, we are told, Zechor, to remember. I will
remind.
So the next generation will not forget what media and diplomacy
chooses to overlook- changing history by ignoring history. Never ever
again, on my watch.
There is no irony the despot died the midnight after my brother's
birthday. There is a God.
Carrie Devorah is a DC based investigative photojournalist. Her
youngest brother, Canadian Yechezkel Chezi Scotty Goldberg, forever
41,
January 29, 2004, on Bus 19 , outside Sharon's office in Jerusalem.
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