“Granddad Arafat, Please Get Well”

On November 4, when the news that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat went into brain death got around, a girl is lighting a candle around the Percy de Clarmat military hospital military hospital in Southwest France where he is hospitalized. As the actual political life of Arafat has come to an end, there are voices of concern that the Middle East will be thrown into turmoil again.