Over 20,000 Palestinians jam a compound about the size of a football field shooting their AK47’s into the air to mourn the passing and kiss the coffin of Yasser Arafat. Preliminary reports cite 120 casualties from the crowd’s crush and falling bullets. It was a poetic end to the reign of terror of a man who would probably have preferred death and martyrdom under a “rain” of bullets. Perhaps the “gravity” of the situation will finally lead fanatics to spend a little less on bombs and a little more on education (at least in the area of physics).
Jan 01