Oh, and on the Arafat question Isreal has a nice little card up their sleeves to deal with him, or not as is in fact the case. Their line on any Palestinian leader has always been that they won't consider them available to do business with if he has links to terrorism. I.e. if Arafat actually could control the terrorists then he is not the kind of person they would want to be dealing with. And of course, if he can't control the terrorists then whats the point of dealing with him anyway! They've used both lines on him at one stage or another, which is laughable really. The Isreali state has basically avoided seriously dealing with Palestinian leaders for quite some time using this Catch 22 tactic.
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