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Originally posted by B_part:
There will never be peace in Palestine while Arafat is alive. He is too jealous of his power, and his power is based on terrorism.
Let us all pray that he dies fast, and in a natural way. Making him a martyr would be a catastrophe.
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This is not Arafat's fault. Arafat stayed out of the process - this is Sharon's fault.
In order for Abbas to have credibility amongst the Palestinian people, he had to achieve something, *anything* on the level that Arafat had done. Instead, all that happened was that he appeared to make concessions while receiving nothing in return except more military attacks on the Palestinian street.
And by the way, Arafat's power is not based on terrorism - it is based on democracy. The people voted Arafat there - they never voted for Abbas; Arafat chose and appointed him. If a certain Israeli prime mininister had allowed peaceful elections to take place in Palestine in January of this year, we might have seen a different political makeup to the PA today.
I doubt if there will ever be peace while Sharon is in power - and you may criticise Arafat; but of all of the potential leaders of the Palestinians (those with credibility amongst the populace), he is the
least militant of all of them.