Will he live or will he die? Does he have cancer, blood poisoning or a gastrointestinal disorder? Who will replace Arafat if he dies? If estranged and (shh!) not really blonde wife Suha actually left her fab $16,000 per night digs at the Bristol hotel in Paris in order to come to Ramallah (her first visit in a couple of years) and take him back to the City of Light then Arafat must be really sick.

And so the speculation continues... But the truth is that no-one, outside of Arafat's inner circle, knows what's really going on.

All day long we have been on Yasser watch. One acquaintance said that if Arafat does die then some right-wing Israelis will probably go out on the streets to celebrate and Al Jazeera will film the celebrations and then broadcast the footage to the Arab world - just as the Israeli news programs show Palestinians celebrating after a terrorist attack is committed against Israelis. Yeah, self-righteousness goes both ways.

Personally I think that Arafat has more lives than a cat. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he pulls through this and comes back to Ramallah with a few tins of duty-free foie gras tucked in his carry-on luggage.

No, I don't like Yasser very much... But I worry about the power vacuum he would leave. He has appointed no successor and it quite freaks me out to think of how a power struggle between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority would play out.

Over at Not Another Israel Blog, Harry's friend "B" is running a contest: pick the day of Arafat's demise and predict accurately the political ramifications, and you could win a fab prize.

Oh, how I love dark humour.