Although this is supposed to be a satire piece of commentary, I'd just always presumed, upon the basis of what I'd read in that book, that American intelligence agencies had reached the same conclusion in their research as the Mossad profilers had. AND, therefore, it is NOT that Arrafat is beloved by State, much less by run of the mill average Americans, but rather that any other possible head of the Palestinians was deemed to be dangerously extremist, if not outright clinically pathological.
Therefore, on the basis of what I read almost 20 years ago, I do NOT find much humor, much less any factual analysis of the predicament that staties find themselves in, in regards to Arafat -- who seems to be the best possible leader in a field of candidates who seem to inordinately dangerous. Sorry I don't have the title of the book - it has, afterall, been almost decadeS since I read it.
And to at least every single one of the other 3.2 billion of the world's polpulation whose IQs falls in the "above-average" group!