MY ARAFAT INDEX

Arafat kiddushim* I heard about: 7

Arafat kiddushim* I attended: 3

Number of times I heard the joke about the fortune teller who fortold that Arafat would die on a Jewish holiday, because "any day you die will be a Jewish holiday": 11

People who attacked the Times, in my presence, for mitigating, moderating, palliating, qualifying, reducing, or sanitizing, Arafat's acts of terror: 4





* A kiddush is a small informal party. There were several on Thursday and Saturday to celebrate Arafats death