More on Arafat

A quick follow up to Jazz's post on Arafat below, we must be careful what we wish for. The Palestinians are in a constant internal power struggle anyway with factions much more violent than Arafat trying to get the upper hand. Arafat's successor will probably not be anymore "moderate" than he is. The situation there borders on hopeless and because of years of fighting there is too much hate for there to be a peaceful solution anytime soon. The death of Arafat is not going to improve the situation.