Cue Chevy Chase!

Yassar Arafat, the first person American Network News Hairdos ever referred to as a "Terrorist" is dead.

Again.

Wait! Maybe not.

Dead again.

Hold on a minute!

Nope. Dead once again.

"He is dead," one Palestinian source said. "He died after bleeding in the brain began last night. His bodyguards started hugging and kissing and telling each other to be strong."

Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, in a strenuous denial, said the Palestinian president, 75, was "very much alive."

Arafat's aides said they hoped to bury him at his West Bank headquarters in Ramallah. But an Israeli political source said Israel, which occupies much of the West Bank, would only allow him to be laid to rest in the Gaza Strip.

Shaath described Arafat as "very ill," but said his brain, heart and lungs still functioned. A spokesman for French medical services said earlier: "Mr. Arafat is not dead." LINK

Alive.

Very ill.

Dead.

It just doesn't matter anymore.

Does anyone really believe this guy would ever be allowed to return to power?

Ahem.

If Mrs. Arafat is already getting a $100,000 per month living allowance, and there are reports that she stands to inherit $3 Billion upon his eventual death, why are Palestinians still starving to death? LINK

$3 Billion could go a long way toward feeding the people, building an infrastructure, and thinking about finding some kind of peace.

A $3 Billion investment in the Palestinian people would at least let the world know that Yassar's heart is (or was) finally in the right place.