Myth Busting - 2000 Intifada was deliberately planned by Arafat

I like myth busting.  A popular myth is that the 2000 Intifada was started randomly due the extreme incitement by Ariel Sharon touring the Temple Mount.

Well, interesting that Suha Arafat has now come out and explained how it was all planned by Arafat himself.

Given the level of violence had been rising for some time, it is often made out that the violence just started.

I had a debate with Nigel Parsons (of Massey University) at the time.  Himself a one-eyed reporter who was actually in Ramallah at the time.  But thankfully the truth has now come out.

Arafat's Body exhumed

Yasser Arafat's body has been exhumed, in an effort to determine whether he was poisoned.

There is a good chance that those doing the testing decided on the results before they started.

TimGOz's prediction:  There will be some trace element detected at some slightly abnormal level, which will be hailed as "conclusive proof" that he was poisoned.  The Arab world will hail this as proof.  The rest of the world will see this as a beat up.