Reply #11: This is where Arafat messed up (good post BTW)

[QuietStorm]

couldn't agree with your post more. Arafat proved himself a greedy autocrat concerned more so with his power over the cause of his people (according to Palestinian critics of the peace process). He proved himself a poor negotiator and made concessions he should not have made considernig Accords themselves were flawed in that they called for Bantanstans rather than full soveriegnty. Arafat was bought out. He jailed anyone in Palestinian who criticized the peace process as well as his role in them (or should I say lack of role in them).

There is great weakness in leadership on the Palestiniann side after all these years they are so proficiently sized up by their adversy yet they seem clueless as to how to combat them with efficiency. Arafat was given a shot to outsmart the imbalanced process itself - clinton paid him off and Arafat should himself not one who understands democratic process but one who wiped his feet all over the cause of his own people. There is almost no excuse for this but for a compassion undertanding of human nature. He did not do Nelson Mandella proud.