Obscene, Obscene, Obscene

Today must be a day for stupid news. Really, really stupid news.

Now we have reports coming out of the Territories formerly known as those Territories destined to become Palestine in the mind of Yassar that Arafat himself is celebrating.

Specifically, he is urging a celebration. By the children. For International Children's Day. What's wrong with that?

He wants all the little tykes to celebrate by becoming shahids - suicide bombers.

Encouraging children to blow themselves up in a "celebration." How sick and low can any one person get?

This is wrong. Pure and simple, wrong. No excuse can justify this kind of talk and encouragement. No "war against the oppressor" can justify the call for kids to destroy their lives before they ever get a chance to find out what life is about.

Abu Mazen and the Road Map notwithstanding, if the Palestinians don't remove the cancer that is Arafat, they don't deserve a state. There is no question of moral relevancy. This is wrong. To not remove him from office after something like this is tantamount to agreeing with him.

Arafat stepped way over any line of civil decency. Surely the Palestinian people cannot agree with this abhorrent rhetoric. No sane or reasonable person could.

Someone needs to lay it out now: No Arafat or no state.