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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (8009)9/15/2003 12:56:50 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793820
 
Ironically, those who thought supporting Arafat was synonymous with supporting a Palestinian state are the very ones who have helped prevent it.

In a nutshell.

Arafat's supporters at the U.N. and in the E.U. did not remove obstacles to peace between Israelis and Palestinians, they reinforced them. By wedding themselves to Arafat, his international allies allowed the Palestinian dictator to loot and plunder his people. Since Israel brought Arafat back to the West Bank in 1994 as part of the Oslo Accords, Palestinian GDP has declined 70 percent. Think of it: two-thirds of the collective national Palestinian wealth destroyed. During that same period, despite the high-tech bust and the terror war waged against it, Israel's GDP doubled.

Since Israel brought Arafat back in 1994, the Palestians have also received about $15 billion in outside aid, which is quite a chunk of change for 3 million people on a small patch of ground.
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