Japan Today Japan News - News - Arafat asks Japan for help

He didn't actually just ask Japan. He asked everybody. Google News, I think, is rotating stories from everywhere about Arafat calling the local leaders and asking them to bully Israel. This story actually says that he asked Japan to "tell" Israel to stop; how a country a third of the way around the world with a negligible military is going to boss Israel around is anyone's guess. There's only one country in the world Israel is going to listen to, and I'm in it right now.