Reuven Koret has some in today's Israel Insider newsletter. I can't find a link at the moment, but I'll post one when I do. In the meantime,
In Israel, yesterday, the local television stations screened a video of Arafat in powder blue pajamas and a little black cap, one of the rare views of the Palestinian father of terrorism ever screened without his trademark kaffiyeh and olive-drab military coat.He was there holding hands with various aides and bodyguards, every one of them smiling like, well, idiots. Why, I wondered, are these people smiling? Suddenly, Arafat leaned over to the right as if to kiss the hands that were holding his. The video clip abruptly broke off.
Then it occurred to me: Arafat had completely lost his mind. He had become a blithering idiot, dribbling and drooling and kissing any available hand indiscriminately. That interpretation was confirmed the next day: Haaretz quoted unnamed Palestinian sources as saying Arafat was rambling and incoherent, unable even to recognize Abu Ala and Abu Mazen, the current and former Palestinian PM. He has completely lost his mind.
Whether his feeble-mindedness was the result of a stroke, or just the accumulation of other problems, I don't know. But there are all kinds of clues to suggest that Arafat's physical problems are not the worst thing: he is now irretrievably incompetent mentally.
That would explain the veil of secrecy and the various conflicting explanations offered by Arafat's aides and defenders. The issue isn't whether he has gallstones or leukemia. He now has the mind of a three year old, and a developmentally challenged three year old at that.
Ah, how much better for Arafat if the Israelis had knocked him off guns blazing or in a well-placed missile strike through his Mukata window! Instead, Arafat is destined to spend the rest of his days not leading a million man march to the Temple Mount but stewing in his steamy adult diapers. He will not be waving his hands in a V for victory but flailing them helplessly looking for something to kiss with his slobbering lips.There will be no sympathy from these quarters for this man, who has more murdered Jews to his credit than anyone since Hitler and Stalin. He was a killer and a thief, a corruption and an abomination. He is reaping what he sowed, after a life of perverse attachments to young boys and jars of honey. Now he will be locked away where the sun doesn't shine, confined to his debilitated mind, compulsively licking the lips of his idiot grin.
It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
