Arafat on death's door, ready to be buggered for all eternity by 72 horned satyrs

Good. I hope he suffers greatly on the way to his fiery fate. My only disappointment is that he's expiring of "natural causes." It would have been far more poetically just if the Israelis had shot a missile up his ass and instantly transformed his worthless carcass into li'l Palestinian pork sausages.

As to who will succeed Arafat, who cares? Nobody will get power over the PLO who is any better than he is, and the only thing separating him from the rest of that criminal rabble is his Gorbachevian "rock star" status with the impenetrably ignorant, tiresomely anti-Semitic Western Left. I mean, what are his lieutenants (those that are still breathing) going to do? Strap bigger explosive belts to their teenage suicide bombers?

In that light, you have to chuckle at this almost oblivious graf from the AP story:

"Polls show the second most popular Palestinian after Arafat is Marwan Barghouti, a leader of Fatah's young guard. But Barghouti is serving five consecutive life terms in an Israeli prison for involvement in deadly shooting attacks." [my emphasis]

There's your "peace process." May such Orwellian sophistry die with him.