AIDS has been suggested due to the reports of low platelet counts. However, dying of something like cirrhosis of the liver is just as shameful for him. Arafat sent a lot of people to their deaths via "martyrdom." He also purported that he would die a martyr. So if Arafat dies of a normal cause, then his death would discourage other Palestinians from becoming suicide bombers. Arafat’s legacy is demolished and his death cannot be used as a piece of propaganda. The Palestinians will do everything to keep the theory of poison alive, and they are aided by their sycophants in the media who refuse to speculate themselves.
"Yasser Arafat's nephew said on Monday that medical records released by France showed no race of known poisons in the late Palestinian leader but the cause of death remained a mystery. Nasser al-Kidwa, Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, said the 558-page medical report gave "no clear diagnosis" of what caused his uncle's death in a French military hospital on Nov. 11 and he refused to rule out foul play. The question of what killed Arafat at age 75 is likely to keep the rumor mill churning and to fuel conspiracy theories for years to come.... "Toxicology tests were made, and no poison known to the doctors was found," al-Kidwa said, basing his comments at a news conference on the medical dossier released to him by the French military.
"Because of the lack of clear diagnosis, a question mark remains there (about why Arafat died). Personally I believe it will remain there for some time to come," he added…."We don't have proof that suggests there was poisoning. We don't have proof that there wasn't, in a definitive way," al-Kidwa said. "In all cases, I believe that the Israeli authority is largely responsible for what happened, at least because of the confinement of the late president to (his headquarters) in very bad conditions for three years."