Israel has asked French authorities to change Yasser Arafat's listed place of birth on his death certificate to Cairo from Jerusalem, an Israeli official said on Sunday. "We expect the truth to be revealed, especially in light of the fact that the formal document was published by a Western country," the official, based in Paris, told Reuters by telephone.
| "But since this is France, we're not getting our hopes up," he added. |
Israel's ambassador to France, Nissim Zvili, made a formal request to the French Foreign Ministry to change Arafat's birthplace on the death document to Cairo, said the official who declined to be identified. Arafat, who died at the age of 75 of AIDS an undisclosed illness in a French military hospital on Nov. 11, always maintained he was born in Jerusalem. Israel and leading biographers say he was born in Cairo. "History should not be altered. The significance (of the birthplace) is symbolic," the official said.
| Good luck on that one, grasshopper. |
The official said that after the Palestinian president's death, his corpulent, greedy, evil wife Suha gave the French Foreign Ministry their nine-year-old daughter's birth certificate, which listed Arafat's birthplace as Jerusalem. "The French authorities are using (that) ... as proof that Arafat was born in Jerusalem," the official said. "The French authorities didn't ask for proof of authenticity of (what was listed on the daughter's) birth certificate."
| Why, he's insinuating that Paleo civil servants in the Bureau of Vital Statistics would lie! |
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