…Because it is unseemly to say bad things about the deceased so soon after his passing, I have mentioned some of the good he was a party to. And at this point I will just repeat, “and the rest is history” following the handshake on the White House Lawn, e.g. the hundreds and hundreds of Jews murdered, maimed, mutilated and crippled for life.

I’ll also just recall the moment in 1998 when Shimon was photographed kissing Arafat on the cheek, that poisonous snake of lizard of a man. Like Ishmael the pereh adam, Arafat was a tsefa adam, a viper of a man.

So I do not mourn his passing. He was blessed by Hashem with a long life and a healthy one until just recently. We should all be so healthy, surely a gift from Hashem to him for the good he did.

But I can talk about his admirers and I will after some music…