Monday, June 18, 2007

Arafat's legacy


Arafat's Children: Gaza's Mayhem - Editorial

The cult of violence that has typified the Palestinian movement for much of its history has been tolerated and often celebrated by the international community. If Palestinians now think they can advance their domestic interests by violence, nobody should be surprised: The way of the gun has been paying dividends for 40 years...

A society that has spent the last decade celebrating suicide bombing has inevitably become a victim of its own nihilistic impulses. It is the bitter fruit of Yasser Arafat...
(Wall Street Journal)
Graphic credit: W.Horvath: "Yasser Arafat" Oil on canvas

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