Today’s Washington Post Arafat history comes with the headline: “A Dreamer Who Forced His Cause Onto World Stage.” Too bad the headline couldn’t have made room for paragraph four: “By dint of ruthless violence often directed at civilians, artful manipulation and the sheer theatrical force of his personality, he managed almost single-handedly to elevate the grievances of a few million disenfranchised Palestinians to a prominent place on the world’s political agenda.”