Habash has died, it seems, apparently of natural causes. He was a medical doctor–you may recall I recently called attention to the inordinately high percentage of MD’s at high levels of terrorist organizations–and a Christian. Another living refutation of the view that terrorism is a desperate act carried out by dead-enders with no hope in life. Zawahiri is another medical student who found killing more attractive than Hippocrates’ commandments. There is surprisingly little comment on Habash’s passing, perhaps because he doesn’t fit into the neat explanations favored by the pundit hordes. The best comment, as is so often the case, comes from the New York Sun. Elegantly written, marvelously argued, it’s a tribute to the work of Seth Lipsky and Ira Stoll, who have made the Sun one of the finest newspapers in the country.