Of course...
Hi Tom,
Arafat's livelihood is much like Jesse Jackson's - he is the darling of the EU and has made himself a symbol of "oppression". Yet he lives dozen times better than his fellow Palestinians.
Just like Jesse, he will have a built in faction of media supporters who will always give him press and some sort of "importance." He is comfortable with the status quo - he is a "fixture" of it!
In this case, both sides and extremes are really against the US agenda.
Ever-so-cynical,
SDAI-Tech1