>>>What's hate-based about it? Would it be less hated-based if I said he 
>>>died from being pushed out a window?
>>
>>
>> Yes absolutely.
>
> Why?

Because being pushed-out from a window obviously doesn't have the same 
implications as suggesting that someone has died from what can possibly be 
an STD, especially when linking this supposed disease to a person's supposed 
sexual orientations has you have done in your posts.

 In saying someone "died from being pushed out of a window" :
being "pushed out" implies  accidental or malevolent action, whereas here 
you're speculating on the causes of a death ( hidden by the French, that you 
don't seem to hold in your heart either) from a supposed disease, that you 
yourself linked to Arafat's supposed sexual preferences as most likely cause 
of contamination, hence of disease, hence of death...
And as a lawyer, I'm sure you've somehow been confronted to issues of public 
image and the phenomenon of rumors before, and their implications.
Now in your posts, you were speculating on Arafat's morbus et qualitas 
mortis, based on rumors about his supposed seropositivity and sexual 
preferences.

I may be wrong of course, but what I read in your posts was "the man was 
gay, ( he liked boys), he died of AIDS".
 As Louise mentioned, the sheer fact that you mentioned, and somehow linked 
sexual orientation and an eventual AIDS contamination, made me wonder what 
was behind it, and although you seemed to try to smoothen these statements 
with a quick mention  "not that there's anything wrong with it", I do doubt 
that this was entirely innocent.
Especially coming from someone who doesn't hold Arafat in his heart ( one 
might says "hates the guy's guts").


But this little disgression will not make me forget that your initial post's 
subject line was suggesting that Arafat "should" have died "at Israel's 
hand", while this same state of Israel now has a war-criminal as a Prime 
Minister and that I don't value war criminals more than I do terrorists or 
ex-terrorists...

b