Arafat

As I've mentioned before, I'm all for Israel and have NO tolerance for the Palestinian 'cause' nor the PA and their bleeding dry the people they are said to serve. I feel Arafat is the embodiment of Evil. He has purposefully subjugated his 'people' for political and monetary reasons. He was also afraid of peace. He was afraid if he accepted ANY peace plan in which the Israelis were acknowledged, he would be assassinated. On top of all that, he stole, at best count, over a billion dollars marked for his 'people'!!!

Here's part of his 'legacy', how best to present Shahada to the youth of the West Bank:

Arafat explains that dead Palestinian children- Shahids - are “the greatest
message to the world”. [PA TV Jan. 15, 2002]

Or even better from Uri Dromi:

A few days after the signing ceremony of the Cairo Accords in May 1994 handing over Gaza andJericho to the Palestinians, Arafat gave a speech in Johannesburg at a local mosque. Believing he was among friends only, he talked about the agreement he had just signed: "This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our prophet Muhammad and Qureish."

For those not versed in Islamic history, the agreement, also known as the al-Khudaibiya agreement, was a 10-year peace treaty between Mohammad and the tribe of Qureish. After two years, when Mohammad had improved his military position, he tore up the agreement and slaughtered the Qureishites. Now that Arafat seems to be on the way out, the big question is whether he has been the sole obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians, or whether he simply has been representing a phenomenon common to all Palestinian leaders. Can we at last sit down with people who, instead of double-talking, will for once keep their word?

Personally, I'm not holding my breath.

And of course Suha Arafat is keeping him on life-support until she and others can find the loot:

Over the past 40 years, Mr Arafat's PLO has built up a global empire of investments, worth an estimated $4.2 billion to $6.5 billion. (£2.3-£3.5 billion). Meanwhile the Palestinian Authority, which administers the territories, is virtually bankrupt.

Let the power struggle begin!!!