Ugh. The first thing I thought of was that scene in The Pianist.
When I read the title and the first few paragraphs, I though this was a joke ala Scrappleface; but then when I finished this tragic tale, I knew this was a joke ala the Guardian. Oh the humanity! Forced to play the violin!
It's not even in the same league as pink panties. What the heck.
bttt
A far wiser policy, perhaps, for Israel in the wake of Arafat's death, would have been a conscientious moratorium on anything as unseemly as the behavior described in the article. The far more disturbing thing was the killing of the 13 year old girl. As the Palestinians scramble for new
"leadership" you don't want to give them any reason to be obliged to pick a new Arafat. Interestingly, though, Arafat's death is not mentioned in this piece.