Arafat Opens Eyes, Communicating - Israeli Report

[neomonkey]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6733643&src=rss/topNews§ion=news

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat 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.

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Hmmm, an Israeli report.

I say we just make the call now, he's dead. Dead.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. I think he's a cat.

How many lives does that make now?

[SoCalDem]

2. Meowsir Aracat

:)

[ogradda]

3. didn't they say he was dead an hour ago?

and yesterday?

this guy is starting to scare me...

[neomonkey]

4. True double-speak in every sense of the word

He's actually alive, but we just buried him, but in reality he is alive in the hearts of the Palestinians, meaning he is not dead, even though he is buried, we buried him with his eyes open, so he is alive...


yada yada yada

[NuttyFluffers]

5. shall we start calling him Lazarus Arafat?

... i'm perplexed by all this.

[schrodinger_I]

6. Like Francisco Franco

Arafat is still dead. :-)

[bullimiami]

7. the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated

YA



i saw the news report where they were planning his funeral. but not in jerusalem says sharon.

[neomonkey]

8. This is turning into a twisted version of an int'l Weekend At Bernies

with everyone carting around a corpse while trying to act as if it is still alive.

[0rganism]

9. He's risen from the dead! Pair him with Novak on Crossfire!

Imagine the horror -- "Tonight, Crossfire of the Undead!"

[ogradda]

10. LOL

the unkinda dead.....

[highpitch]

11. AN ISRAELI REPORT

DA JOOOOOOOOOOS OH NOES!


seriously he does need to just keel over and get er done already.

[Tom Kitten]

12. shades of Generalissimo Francisco Franco only in reverse

"This just in...Yassir Arafat is still alive!"
The US media will jump all over this angle only to trivialize it for the typical American audience...

And if you think this is bad, wait till Castro kicks the bucket! Then I promise you they will make Gloria Estefan seem like she was the opposition leader and the top candidate for the new president of Cuba!

[Cooley Hurd]

13. When Franco died, it was exactly the same deal...

He clung to life for weeks & the news would repeat this fact every night. That's where Chevy got the idea for the "Franco's still dead" routine.

On edit: You already knew that - I mean you are Joe Flaherty, aren't you?;)

[Tom Kitten]

14. who me, Joe Flaherty?

NO! If I was I would be a hell of a lot more popular here, that's for sure!
But I appreciate the attention, thanks!

[Cooley Hurd]

16. Damn... if you're not Floyd Robertson...

...then I guess I'm not Earl Camembert.:(

[ComerPerro]

15. Time for a system of blinks

Maybe something similar to what Noirtier used in The Count of Monte Cristo

[The Icon Painter]

17. Monty Python

This is beginning to sound like the old Monty Python bit: "He's getting better. He's dead." Is there no way in this benighted world to hear the truth?

[jobycom]

18. Wow. And Jesus only came back from the dead ONCE! He's been trumped!

So will we be worshipping Arafat in 2000 years, you think? Well, not "we," obviously, since we are not Arafat and will be dead by then...