Yasser Arafat, widely believed to have died last week, is in fact in fine form, if a videotape of the on-again, off-again Palestinian leader from an Israeli source is to be believed. The clip, screened on the popular entertainment show "Only in Israel" (Rock b'yisrael), shows an amorous Abu Amar repeatedly kissing and embracing an unknown man in religious garb as his bodyguards and others watch. The extended smooch -- accompanied by slurping, Hebrew love-words and pleasure sounds as well as a piano sonata -- has suggested to some analysts that Arafat's death may in fact have been faked, enabling the Palestinian leader to escape his three-year confinement in Ramallah and to carry on with more pleasurable activities...
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