Arafat lacked no bottle

Now you know I'm not one to gossip...
but according to the satirical French paper Le Canard enchaîné, Yasser Arafat suffered a cirrhosis of the liver, which is why cause of death was never reported (according to Le Monde).
This was not caused by alcohol consumption, according to medical sources, but an uninformed public would certainly have drawn that connection. Since Arafat didn't drink, but suffered from lesions in the liver, there were suspicions among Palestinians that he had been poisoned. There was no evidence of this according to the paper: causes of death were multiple and complex. Yet explaining these medical nuances to a world ripe with prejudice was untenable: the Middle East is not ready for truth.