Reading between the lines, we present this week’s news: Yasser Arafat is dead. It’s about time, too. Right about now he should be at the pearly gates, hearing the bad news that 70 virgins aren’t waiting for him. I’m saddened only because Arafat’s death resulted from some physical illness rather than an Israeli missile strike. Naturally, the Palestinians are blaming Israel, saying he was poisoned. Nice thought, even if it isn’t the truth. Arafat is given a lovely eight-page online obituary in The New York Times, which remembers his order of a massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics...