Greed

I have read that Suha Arafat is going to receive a $22m yearly stipend from the PA for the rest of her life. What was Arafat thinking giving her this kind of money? This may be an unjustified generalization (when are they ever justfieid?), but my experience in Islamic cultures had revealed that women of the family are generally spoiled if it can be afforded. Men are religiously discouraged, or even prohibited from wearing silk and gold, while women are not. That is pretty much the only reason I can come up with to explain why Arafat gave her $1.8m per month. I may be totally off, I don't know.

More importantly, however, what kind of woman accepts that kind of money, knowing the desparate poverty of the Palestinians?