Yasser Arafat, ailing from an unknown but obviously blood-related disease, has been taken to France for medical treatment. Arafat's illness couldn't have come at a worse time for the Palestinian people, as there is great uncertainty over how the Palestinian Authority can continue with its leadership divided and increasingly ineffective. And Arafat himself can be blamed in part for the current chaos, as he has not prepared the Palestinian Authority to continue without him, and with no clear successor. Arafat increasingly resembles a Middle Eastern King Lear, as he helplessly watches his fiefdom degenerate into disorder and disunion. :-(
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