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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (2257)	4/13/2002 12:28:15 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

But the key is to make Arafat moderate his rhetoric (or at least create the circumstances which facilitate it). He can't just mouthed a one-time condemnation of terrorism. He has to follow it up with actions, and continued declarations demanding the terrorism stop. This utterance merely makes it "politically palatable" for Powell to meet with him. Arafat has his golden chance to play up his "house arrest" as his personal "ordeal" and assert that the Palestinians have fought a valiant struggle for peace, which is now at hand if the terrorist bombings stop. He can claim that the Palestinian "struggle" has succeeded in forcing the international community to recognize their national aspirations, through the "baptism of fire" that he Arafat has wanted for the purpose of uniting his people behind him. And that should give him the political capital to transition from his state of struggle to actually forming a state. But governing that state, and trying to independently develop it without reliance upon Israeli markets, infrastructure, and port facilities will be the greater challenge. It all depends on if Arafat wishes to be seen by history as nothing more than a failed terrorist, or someone who struggled and "suffered" for the sake of creating a Palestinian state. Not that he's really suffered, having access to all of that cash he's been given over the years. Hawk