One important reason for this change in attitude is, of course, Yasir Arafat’s disappearance from the scene. Like the Thane of Cawdor in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
当然，导致这一看法改变的重要原因是，亚瑟尔·阿拉法特从政治舞台的消失。就像莎士比亚的《麦克白》中的考多郡的新郡主，“他一生中没有哪件事比他的离世对他来说更恰如其分。”