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04/24/2004: "Yasser Arafat, messiah"

With Ariel Sharon making noises about how he won't guarantee the personal safety of Yasser Arafat any more, some of Arafat's aides have descended into ludicrous analogy, according to the Jerusalem Post:

Jibril Rajoub, Arafat's national security advisor, warned that "the blood of Arafat will chase the Jews forever, the same as Christ's blood."

Leave aside the fact that Rajoub has obviously not gotten the memo that 1) Muslims don't believe Christ was crucified, and 2) we're supposed to all be over that "Jews as Christ-killers" thing that usually marks a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite. What I find delicious is the parallel:

Jesus Christ: Messiah, Savior, Lord, sinless man, God incarnate.
Yasser Arafat: terrorist, murderer, Jew-baiter, billionaire kleptomaniac.

Yup, I can see the resemblance.