Sadly it seems that Yasser Arafat´s death is near. He´s suffering from a brain hemorrhage.

His death will be a great loss. He has his faults, but they are not the ones he´s usually accused of. Surely he has made mistakes, but the people that accuse him of making them are often themselves far worse. During his leadership, PLO has in it´s 40 years of fight for Palestine killed less than 2000 people. There are very few liberation movements with a record like that. And leaders of countries who are now fighting Iraq, countries who first supported the Baath-regime 1968-91(when it killed at least tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and started a war against Iran that caused the death of a 1 000 000 people) and then turned against it and have since killed 100 000 - 250 000 people in the Gulf War, 500 000 - 1 000 000 people by the use of sanctions and 30 000 - 150 000 people during this Iraq war are not in any kind of position to accuse him of anything. Nor are the arrogant, murderous, racist bastards who rule Israel and to whom Judaism and it´s history is a license to kill people and steal their lands.