Written by: Beck

Yasser Arafat is officially dead.

He died peacefully, in his sleep, in a hospital bed. Which is far, far, far better than he deserved. But I guess it's too much to ask that his death come about as a result of slow blood loss after an explosion tore away his flesh and baked his skin, his last sight the mutilated corpse of his own child--a fate he inflicted on so many but in the end escaped.

And now, we await what's to come for Palestine. Their future right now is a flipped coin hovering in the air. How it comes down depends on the people and leaders in Palestine specifically and the entire Middle East generally. And history shall judge them all.