Truly warped and disgusting comments by the leading Christian churchman in Wales, Archbishop Dr Barry Morgan, about the death of Arafat, whom he eulogises thus:

'Yasser Arafat has given his life to the cause of the Palestinian people and will be remembered for his perseverance and resolve in the face of so many challenges and set-backs. When I heard the news of his death this morning, my initial reaction was to pray that in death Yasser Arafat will find that peace which only God can give and which was denied him in life. I pray also that his death will not lead to bloodshed and conflict within the Palestinian community, or confrontation with the forces of the Israeli state. I call on the Israeli state to do all it can to avoid inflaming an already tense situation and condemn its deliberately provocative act today in sending armed police officers into St George's Anglican Cathedral in Jerusalem to arrest Mordechai Vanunu who has enjoyed sanctuary there since his release from prison in April of this year following 18 years of incarceration.'

So a mass murderer is all but canonised for his 'perseverance and resolve' in the face of 'set-backs' -- presumably the tiresome desire of those damned Jews to try to prevent him from exterminating them -- while Israel, the target of his terror, is the party that has to be restrained from 'inflaming the situation'. But then, of course, as far as church leaders like this are concerned, the Israelis wilfully 'inflame the situation' because they have no sense of self-preservation but merely seek to trample Palestinians underfoot.

American church leaders would do humanity a great service if they started to highlight the moral bankruptcy displayed over Israel by their fellow churchmen in the UK; and started also to teach them a few facts of life about the obscene lies, libels and incitement to murder with which the Palestinian and wider Arab and Muslim religious and civil leadership have been 'inflaming the situation' against the Jews for the past hundred years.