Reply #10: Arafat is the symptom, not the cause. [View All]

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If you remove him without addressing the causes you will
just get another one to replace him. If your interest is
simply to have revenge on him, fine, but that has nothing to
do with peace and nothing to do with negotiating a settlement.

If he is to be removed, he must be removed by the Palestinian
people, that is what democracy and self-determination and all
that sort of rhetoric is about. Anything else is just going to
bite you in the ass.

Edit: Just for the record, I'm not an Arafat fan, he's just as
big an asshole as Sharon, but it isn't up to the Palestinian
people to decide Sharon must be removed, if Israelis are dumb
enough to want Sharon that is their problem, and the same applies
to the Palestinians and Arafat.