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On Saturday afternoon, some 150 supporters of the Palestinian cause gathered outside the Percy hospital, and shouted "[Yasser Arafat] is not dead." A banner read, "Palestine defeated Rome, it will defeat Washington. Arafat opened for us the gates of Jerusalem. Arafat = Jesus, Sharon =...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Author MICHEL ZLOTOWSKI and AP
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 07.11.2004
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Arafat, Yasser
Friedmann, Moishe Arye
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Summary:On Saturday afternoon, some 150 supporters of the Palestinian cause gathered outside the Percy hospital, and shouted "[Yasser Arafat] is not dead." A banner read, "Palestine defeated Rome, it will defeat Washington. Arafat opened for us the gates of Jerusalem. Arafat = Jesus, Sharon = Barrabas [fictional crime leader], thief, and criminal, Bush = Pilate, coward, assassin, and idiot." Nearby, Linda Salm, a 40-year-old Frenchwoman of Tunisian descent, muttered a prayer as she kissed a portrait of Arafat: "Great Allah, keep him alive to bring peace to Palestine," she said, kissing a portrait of Arafat. "I hope he's alive," she said. Photo; RABBIS YISRAEL [Yisroel Dovid Weiss], Moshe Berr Beck, and Moshe [Moishe Arye Friedmann] pay their respects at a makeshift altar for PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in Clamart, France, yesterday.