Wasn't "The rumor" of which you are now mongering about, actually just "A rumor"? You know, the difference between one of many rumors mongered about at that time but indisputably not a singular or unique rumor, of course? Surely you can stipulate that there where very many rumors and numerous ones imagining Israel or some subdivision thereof visiting death upon Arafat and there was undoubably maybe another equal measure of Non-Israeli interests that would do him the same?