He is a peace of shit and surely the world is better off without him. I shed no tears for his death, in fact, I was very nonchalant about the wholse situation.
But I find flaws in your article. You have singled a few people, one from the BBC and the other from the left wing paper the Guardian.
First of all I hope this isn't a bad reflection of the UK. I don't think anyone condones Arafat and his actions (even if he has professed his innocense). I can buy the Guardian article, I wouldn't expect anything else but I wouldn't mind seeing the BBC source. It seems like it's taken out of context.
