Yasser Dead, now what?

[RoadClosed]

The democrats will be recruiting voters.

[The Texan]

Yasser is offically dead, they buried him today at his compound.

[Negative]

Road > Leno was kidding, I thought... now it turns out that Bush believes an independent Palestinian state to be possible before 2009, though...

[Cybr1d]

Lets liberate them

[RoadClosed]

Leno was kidding, I thought... now it turns out that Bush believes an independent Palestinian state to be possible before 2009

I was kidding too. Maybe.

On Palestine... independance would be nice. Isreal has already gave into about 90 percent of what Arafat wanted. The biggest division being the control of the Holy City. If a new leader emerges that wants peace and is willing to give concessions where appropriate then perhaps. The flip side is some radical gaining control on the extreme opposite of Sharon. There are already planned bombings to "avenge" Arafats death for those in Hamas who believe Afafat was assassinated. Or maybe not Hamas but those behind the secret arm of the Palestine Authority.

Bush didn't like Arafat. After coming close to peace in 1993 when Arafat and Isreal signed an accord in Oslo granting Palestine "autonomy". After the death of Rabin, suicide bombing continued and all following Isreali Prime Ministers continued to isolate Arafat and cut off his power over the Palestine people since his 1996 election as prime minister of Palestine. That didn't happen until 2000 when Clinton declared the peace process and the summit at Camp David a failure. This is after several Isreali withdrawls from occupied territories for the entire decade of the 90's. Bush called for the removal of Arafat from the Palestine Authority in 2003.

This after escalated suicide bombings following Sharons visit to the Holy City in 2000 leading up to one I remember very well in addition to all the others: The Passover killings in the Park Hotel where Palstines bombed a holiday feast. It was after that event that Sharon rolled troops BACK into the West Bank and surrounded Arafat, later the Cabinet declared Arafat an enemy of the state. Later in 2003 a new Prime Minister was appointed over Palestine. So now that bad blood and history are out of the way perhaps peace can continue? But with Sharon in power the Palestines MUST reel in their suicide bombers for the good of their people.

It was Arafats failure to control them and the radical viewpoint on protecting Isreal by Sharon that results in the current stance.