I agree completely on Arafat. The man has absolutely failed utterly to deliver statehood for the palestinian people. He has missed every opportunity for a peace settlement for decades, and is SOLELY responsible for the collapse of the once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity 2000 peace talks. What a fucking idiot. What a worthless piece of shit! The worst national liberation leader of all time! What he could have done! What he could have given to his people, the Middle East, and the entire world at that moment. But no. He failed to rise to the occassion. What a shallow little man. The sooner this guy is out of power the better.

However, the palestinian people still need a state so as to at least start the begining of the end of the hostility between Israel and the Arab world. This problem has to be resolved so the arab world will stop blaming everything on the "Jews and Americans" and start looking at their own pathetic governments. Monarchies and dictatorships have no place in the 21st Century. I hope they will not last long.

Palestinians have certainly forfieted any right to have a say in where the border is drawn. So Israel is imposing a settlement and drawing the final border now with the wall. A very good move. Maybe after four or five decades of palestinian statehood the rest of the arab world might start to warm to Israel. They might even be democracies by then!