Another misleading Reuters headline

"Arafat Makes Final Journey Home to West Bank," reads the headline. But as I understand his religion, or my own, it's merely the shell of the man once known as "Yassar Arafat" which has made that journey. That which made him a man had already completed its journey to face the judgment of Allah or God.  The process of judgment for him must have been an awe-full and awful one — quite dissimilar to Arafat's earthbound funeral proceedings (which, as I heard them just now in a tape-recorded BBC reporter's piece on NPR, involved lots of mob screaming and gunfire into the air).

I suppose Reuters should be commended for managing to avoid use of internal scare quotes in this direct quote:

Palestinians named a collective leadership comprised mainly of veteran moderates in Arafat's circle, reviving world hopes of a return to peacemaking that Israel had ruled out as long as the man it called "a master terrorist" was in charge.

World hopes indeed, in which I certainly share: May the next funeral of a Palestinian leader, whenever it comes, be characterized by calmer reflection on the career of a genuine  peacemaker, someone who's shown the courage to stand up against violence and terrorism, and to seize the peace and the statehood that's there for the taking, if only hatred can be sufficiently subdued.