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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: gamesmistress who wrote (81185)10/27/2004 7:26:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll   of 793850
 
Without Arafat's unifying presence, simmering political rivalries would likely explode. In his Fatah movement, the old guard Arafat contemporaries who returned with him from exile in the 1990s is trying to keep out younger activists who remained in the West Bank and Gaza, fought Israel in two uprisings and now demand to be rewarded with political power.

Fatah also faces stiff competition from the militant Hamas group, which hopes to capitalize on massive frustration with Arafat's corrupt government during local elections in December.


I hope Israel is finalizing its preparations; for Israel is going to have to contain the funeral games that follow Arafat's death.

Note how the AP just accepts Ashrawi's statement without comment,

''It's only natural to expect that there would be either a power struggle or there would be a loss of cohesion,'' she said

The AP accepts that it's only natural that the Palestinians have no working institutions or government. Naturally, it's been that way for the last 80 years; why change now?
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