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Originally Posted by punky
Arafat could have clicked his fingers and the conflict would have been so different. He had that power. But, he never used it.
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Could he? I don`t mean that in a flippant way, this conflict has two sides and both are equally responsible. With Arafat now dead one of Sharon's favourite excuses for acting like a barbarian has left the scene. Logically, until the new leaders of the PLO have demonstrated which way they are going to go, Sharon should curtail his reign of terror. It remains to be seen whether this will happen, of whether he just wants to continue with his tired rhetoric and finds a new excuse. If ithe latter it does bring into question whether Arafat, no matter what he did, could have eased the tensions in the area.