fully expecting to be beaten up by roving Palestinians at this point

[waider]

Israel approves Palestinian plans to bury Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, as he lies in a deep coma in a French hospital.

"I'm not dead!" "Ere, he say's he's not dead!" "Yes he is" "I'm not!" "He isn't" "Well, he will be soon, he's very ill" (Monty Python, of course)