Well, that’s not the best of headlines. Technically, all doctors agree on the death of the terrorist Yasser Arafat. He is most assuredly and thankfully dead. The disagreement comes into play when the cause of his death is the issue.
The publication of Yasser Arafat’s medical records yesterday failed to offer a clear reason for the cause of his death.
The records, compiled by French doctors who treated the Palestinian leader in the final days of his life last November, say he died from a stroke resulting from a bleeding disorder that was caused by an unknown infection.
Many Palestinians believe Arafat’s death was unnatural and that he was probably poisoned by the Israelis. There has also been speculation that his illness shared characteristics with Aids.
Doctors who examined the records – which have remained private until now – on behalf of the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz and the New York Times come to contradictory conclusions.
Some point out that the French medical team found no traces of any known poison. Others say a poison could have been excreted, masked by something else or not be known to the doctors.
Could’ve been excreted, could’ve been masked. Any doctor who ignores the fact that zero evidence of poison was found is either disgustingly politically motivated or deluded. However, it should be noted that delusion about Israeli conspiracies and poisonings is certainly nothing new among the Palestinians.