Actually -
In the past, Arafat has worked for peace. Renegade Palestinian organizations more interested in revenge than resolution has always sabotaged it. The resented Arafat working to honor accords while the Israelis kept building settlements.
Arafat convinced the world to the extent he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sharon, on the other hand, has always been a brutal mass murderer working to expel any non-Jew from Palestine any way he could.
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