Smart move by Sharon to accomodate the exit. If Arafat had died in Ramallah there might have been a gigantic funeral parade to jerusalem that would have been a PR disaster for Israel. As it is, the entire death scene has been turned into a farce. A fitting and tawdry end to the awful Arafat era.
Excellent point, my thoughts too, although I'm unsure he's as terminal as some are reporting. He may be close, but comment made by French doctors claiming that his coma is "technically reversible" is very strange.