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...likely. Arafat may not quite be an “enemy of the entire free world,” as Sharon has said, but Arafat has at least been complicit in suicide bombings. In addition, the Palestinian Authority’s connection to a weapons shipment from Iran contradicts Arafat??s claim to want peace. Nonetheless, Arafat is the only visible Palestinian leader who has any degree of legitimacy both with his people and with the West. If Sharon has his way and Arafat is expelled, Israel will fall prey to even greater violence and tumult during...
...Whatever Arafat??s eventual fate, imprisoning him inside his office only fuels the rage of Palestinian extremists by making Arafat a symbol of resistance to Israeli oppression. Moreover, he has no opportunity to mitigate extremist violence, as Sharon and Bush have asked of him, if his contact with those groups...
...Yasser Arafat appeared on Israeli television to proclaim “my hand is outstretched in peace.” Yet just a few hours earlier, in a speech to a Palestinian woman’s group, he called for a “jihad” against Israel. Arafat??s message worked: the first female suicide bomber struck Israel that same day. A week later, in a Feb. 3 op-ed piece to the New York Times, Arafat wrote, “I condemn the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli civilians...
...disposal to enhance terrorism while publicly disavowing terror as a tool for its cause. History has shown time and time again that the PA cannot be relied upon to stop terror; instead, many of the terrorist groups targeting Israel, notably the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, come from Arafat??s legions and admit to being under his control. But most important is this: Arafat is an elected representative of the Palestinian people. Arafat may rule with an iron fist, but he was elected by a landslide in a popular election...
...hands. Arafat may be many things, but he is hardly incompetent; since Oslo, he has balanced talk of peace with use of violence in a carefully calculated way. That the United States and European Union have only now begun to call his bluff testifies to Arafat??s skill at playing this bloody game...