Foreign Affairs Update

Most of you know that Yasser Arafat is in a French hospital, seriously ill with some "mystery" ailment. It's interesting that the nature of that illness is being kept a secret. His aides have indicated that he doesn't have leukemia and has not been poisoned. My spider sense tells me that it's a fatal condition, and he's trying to place a successor into power before the various Palestinian factions resort to civil war.