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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] It's all circumstantial evidence. "If the shoe fits. . ." say your bloggers. But it doesn't fit. They've taken a picture of his foot with no indication of scale, and put it together with a shoe whose internal dimensions thay don't know (but have extrapolated based on external dimensions and the materials used in contruction), and concluded that Arafat could wear it snugly and comfortably with no pinching around the toes. To strain my metaphor past breaking point, he won't be able to stand up in court and embarrassingly demonstrate it doesn't fit either. 8) My inability to prove he doesn't have AIDS is of no more importance than your inability to prove he does. Just because I can't provide a summary of his symptoms and a list of alternate causes, it doesn't render stronger your argument based on partisan opinions. And "not immediately discreditable" does not equal "non-partisan." Your sources want to see Aaraft as homosexual because:- a) It reinforces their own prejudices. "That Godless heathen terrorist is a faggot? I'm not surprised!" b) It plays on the prejudices of the Palestinians, who are garded as the enemy, if not of the bloggers then the enemy of their friends the Israelis. Arafat is obviously revered by his people. The political implications of his sexuality and the ways in it could weaken the Palestinans' cause, their resolve, the reputrations of his successors, are miriad. There are a lot of people skilled in character assassination who don't have anything to do now, for the next four years. They have to keep busy somehow. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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