These are flaws and fallacies in Arab reactions to Ariel Sharon's near death moment:

1) Arab public excitement, while understandable giving the long and brutal war record of the man, also reveals impotence. Imagine when your only hope in Palestinian struggle, is the natural illness or death of one leader in the enemy camp.
2) it indirectly assumes that changes at the helm in Israel will produce improvement in the plight of Palestinian struggle. If anything, the history of Zionism has shown that brutality and savagery against the Palestinian people has always been a matter of consensus. Disagreements in the enemy camp were never over issues of moral or ethical dimensions. Weather to privatize this enterprise or that was far more a determinant of electoral political behavior.
3) the cult of Sharon, even as the symbol of the brutal enemy, unwittingly produces an overemphasis on the personality of Sharon, as if the massacres that units under his commands committed were an aberration, or as if his policies were mere whims, or a function of a personality flaw.
4) suppression of public reaction noticed in Arab media to the news of Sharon's illness are not only unwarranted, given the bloody record of the man, but also shows too much effort in trying to please the Western media and Western (historically colonial) sensibilities. I mean, Western governments and armies (witness the war in Afghanistan and Iraq) have not felt an obligation to restrain sentiments of jubilation upon killing "the enemy." I remember that the US news of the killing of Saddam's 12-year-old grandson by US gunfire was treated as a military victory worthy of a parade.
5) Arab news media, all under Arab neo-conservative, pro-Saudi control, seem to show "respect" for death, all due to an obsession with the needs to aspire to measure up to "civilized" standards of behavior, when those standards are routinely ignored and trampled upon in Western societies.
6) there is an underlying hope, nay illusion, that once this bad leader or that bad leader (Bush or Sharon or Golda Meir, or Reagan) is out of office, things will be better for "our struggle" and that the enemy will then identify with the goals of struggle. This attitude of false expectation only paralyzes action, and suspends independent plans of action. It is apathy in waiting.
7) the religious nuts (Muslims, Christians, and Jews) assume that this man who lived into old age, and having never to answer for his crimes, and having not served one day in jail) that he was punished by god. Punished by God? Having lived into old age and not behind bars? His career and long life is but a refutation of the notion of a "divine justice".