For several years there have been suggestions that Arafat was bisexual.
Ion Pacepa, who was deputy chief of Romanian foreign intelligence under the Ceaucescu regime and who defected to the West in 1978, says in his memoirs that the Romania government bugged Arafat and had recordings of the Arab leader in orgies with his body guards.
As French doctors continue to run tests on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat some medical authorities not connected directly to his case are suggesting that he may have HIV/AIDS.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath Monday said that all types of cancer had been ruled out.
Arafat has been visibly ill for more than two weeks. Last Wednesday he collapsed and briefly lost consciousness. Initial blood tests performed in the West Bank revealed a low blood platelet count. The Palestinian leader was airlifted to France where he is undergoing more tests.
But, with leukemia and other forms of cancer ruled out, the list of possible diseases is narrowing.
A low blood platelet count is a sign of a weakened immune system. In addition to cancer, the low count could be attributed to bleeding ulcers, colitis, liver disease, lupus, or HIV. It is believed that ulcers and colitis have already been ruled out.
Arafat has lost a considerable amount of body weight. Hopital d’Instruction des Armees de Percy, southwest of Paris, also has some of France’s best HIV/AIDS doctors.
If the suggestions that Arafat has AIDS are true, it is doubtful it would be made public.
I don’t really care that he’s gay. That’s his personal business (though it’s been known for years and years in the Middle East that he is). I feel sorry for him that he may have contracted AIDS. Again, that’s not something that you’d want to wish upon anybody, I’d think.
Given all that, however, I can’t help but find myself a little pleased that he might finally be drawing down the curtain and joining the “choir invisible”. There’s a lot of innocent blood on his hands that he’ll have to answer for, somewhere, I would hope.
Same goes for a few on the right over there, too. I’ve met some real pricks on that side, too, over in the Middle East.
The only reason he was on his chair in the first place is because he’d been nailed there. He’s dead I tell you. He’s passed on. Bereft of life he breathes no more. His bodily functions are now of interest only to Anthropologists. If you hadn’t nailed him to the chair he’d be pushin’ up the daisies. He’s bleedin’ demised…
I don’t really care that he’s gay. That’s his personal business (though it’s been known for years and years in the Middle East that he is).
As long as he doesn’t try and get married, right?
He is married. He has married a Christian Arab woman, some say to provide his leadership with a wider acceptance in Arab circles. In Israel and in the occupied territories quiet a few Arabs are Christians.
