Cheese-flavored Yasser Arafat potato chips. The Egyptians can’t get enough of them.
Arafat potato chips take Egyptian market by storm from the Bahrain Tribune
Cashing in with Arafat chips from the Washington Times
The chips are bagged in Palestinian colors – green, red, black and white – and carry the likeness of Mr. Arafat, rotund and wide-eyed, saluting with one hand and holding a Palestinian flag in the other. He’s dressed in his trademark military fatigues and black-and-white checked headgear. For every 50 bags sold the company that makes this travesty of a snack food donates the equivalent of 5 cents to the Palestinian cause. Each bag says “The more you buy, the more you build.” Build what? Arafat had his chance for peace at a Palestinian state. [“The ‘Jenin Massacre’ hoax” by Charles Krauthammer]
Twenty-one months ago, Israel offered a total end to the occupation, ceding 100 percent of Gaza and 97 percent of the West Bank to the first Palestinian state ever. The Palestinians turned that down and took up the suicide bomb. By the Orwellian logic of today, the Palestinians are justified in perpetrating one massacre after another to end an occupation that Israel offered to remove almost two years ago.
Rather than choose peace Arafat chose to slaughter innocents again and again. Now he has no power over the other terrorists that continue to use human beings as weapons. 5 cents for 50 bags of chips to the Palestinian cause. 25,000 dollars from Saddam for the family every suicide bomber. This is madness. For the most part the international community, especially the Arab world, supports this terror war. But clearly the Palestinian cause is not for a Palestinian state that coexists with Israel. Their friends in Egypt can’t have just one chip, and they themselves can’t have just one state – they have to destroy Israel. The recent wave of anti-semetic violence in Europe shows they are not alone.
How long, O LORD? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and clamorous discord. This is why the law is benumbed, and judgment is never rendered: Because the wicked circumvent the just; this is why judgment comes forth perverted. Look over the nations and see, and be utterly amazed! For a work is being done in your days that you would not have believed, were it told. Habakkuk 1:2-5