Egypt has threatened to stop pressuring Israel to continue to allow Yasser Arafat to live if he doesn’t meet a few of their demands. The Article reads as though Egypt knows that he is the biggest obstacle to peace at the present time, which surprises me seeing that the rest of the world blames Israel. I personally wish that Arafat would have been blown to Hell (literally) years ago. It sickens me that this guy, who has children killed in front of their parents, and pregnant women gutted in front of their husbands, not to mention the violence he perpetuates against Israelis has a Nobel Peace Prize in his possession. I’m not at all confident that his death will help the “peace process” though, as he has radicalized enough of the Palestinian population that they will just replace him with someone as bad as he is, or worse.
I won’t get into what I think should be done to bring peace to the Holy Land. It goes against what most westerners feel is acceptable. (At least no one would have to die under my plan though).
Just as bad or worse? Maybe. Just as entrenched? No way. If Arafat can be gotten rid of then any future extremist leaders will have the same kind of accidents that leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah seem to be having so often of late…