Dahlan, nutty Dahlan

""Gilad described Dahlan as a man whose emotional and mental health was deteriorating to the point that he 'collapsed' in Gilad's arms when the latter met him on the evening of September 16," Dibble wrote. "Gilad described the meeting as follows: 'Dahlan was there with his daughter-in-law. I told him 'You are sick,' and he started screaming and shouting at me. He shouted for hours. We called a doctor and suggested he go to a hospital. He refused and said he had to speak to thousands of Palestinians on September 17. He then collapsed on his bed. He looked ghostly white ... I said, 'If you leave this room you will either be martyred or end up paralyzed.' He broke down in my arms and said he would go to hospital. We arranged a VIP room at a hospital in Tel Aviv and took him there in an ambulance with a police  escort. The following day doctors said he had a slipped disc."" (thanks Basil)