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This is crazy thinking. Famous people do typically have access to better medical care, through personal wealth or the goodwill of their supporters, but you seem to think that power/celebrity confers immunity from disease and misadventure. It lowers the risk, is all.

This does not mean I disagree with the findings of this report, not least because I haven't read it yet. It's entirely plausible that Arafat could have been murdered...but considering that he was a thorn in Israel's side for around 40 years, you're in no position to talk about him dying at an opportune time. I'm sure there were people who wanted to assassinate him over the last several decades. For the last 2 years of his life he was effectively under house arrest by the Israeli army, so why wait 2? Is there something terribly unusual about 75-year old men dying? Hardly. It's certainly possible that he was assassinated, but by your logic we should also be investigating the death of counterculture icon Lou Reed, who was a mere 71.

Also it's rain, not reign.



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