From a reader:

Hi Jonah,
I agree that Arafat was a bad man, and when I heard he was dying,
I was glad. But that fact in itself causes grief: that there would
be someone so bad that I would wish him dead. I’m a Christian, and
I believe Arafat’s in hell right now, and that also makes me sad.
He could have chosen differently and he and the world would have
been better off.