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Originally posted by sock
While his people were suffering, Arafat did nothing to promote a peace process.
I don't believe that is totaly correct though. Arafat did many things to have peace and to come to a solution. It is only in the last few years that he has "gone back" to his stuburn himself and refusing any negatiation (Camp David). But don't forget that he did a lot of good things also (he won the Nobel price for peace for that).
I hope that there will be a solution now though, although I think it will not be soon unfortunatly as for some extremists Palestinians Arafat will be a martyr and that's even more dangerous then a "life Arafat" so to speak. I suspect even more violence in the coming days from extremists from the Palestinian side and of course Israel will react with violence...... I surely hope I'm wrong though...
For those who want to know who Arafat was (terrorist vs peace nobel price winner):
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arafat.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat
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