(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - A senior PA official said Arafat's health has rapidly deteriorated over the past two weeks. On Sunday, when a pale and fragile-looking Arafat met in his office with new PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, Palestinians said they have never before seen Arafat in such a condition. "You can see that he's very ill," said someone who attended the meeting. "He can hardly speak. Something bad is happening to him." At first, his aides suspected that he had been poisoned. A journalist in Ramallah quoted a senior PA official as saying that "Arafat's days are numbered."
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