good night, arafat

Yasser Arafat is “sleeping” in a “light coma” or perhaps he slipped into a “deeper coma” last night. He apparently has a massive brain hemorrhage which is getting worse, but, nonetheless, his condition is “stable.” And apparently its against Islamic law to remove him from “life support.”

I have a solution. They can’t pull the plug, but they could strap a bomb to him. As I understand it, that would be perfectly acceptable under Islamic law. I know the Parisian hospital probably has some regulations regarding explosive devices in their intensive care unit, but hey, c’mon, this is Yasser we’re talking about here. How could the French be so gauche as to deny Arafat the kind of martyr’s death he always wanted?

As this bloodthirsty godfather of modern terrorism approaches the Great Divorce, let us each take a quiet moment to remember the thousands of innocent civilians who lost their lives because of this man who was so defined by his hatred that he could not choose peace over slaughter, even when peace was presented to him on a silver platter. May his nihilistic vision for his people’s future perish with him.