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Don't want to hijack the thread but,... I think this would be a golden opportunity for the U.S to come and help in the progress of a future Palestinian leader. They appear to have done a satisfactory job in Iraq with Karzai and could do the same in Palestine.
Further this could give the U.S a lift is public opinion with regards to the Arabs and at the same time could do some dearly needed damage control regarding the one sided nature the U.S has chosen by catering to the Israeli's while totally ignoring the Palestinians.
Of course this would be all in the name of future peace between both sides. If such an attempt were made and were quashed by the Israeli's, their international reputation which is flailing already, would be worthless. Arafat is their biggest excuse to avoid peace and they have done well to convince people of that. With Arafat out of the way and somewhat paradoxically, if the Israeli's don't come to the table showing that indeed they don't want peace (Actually they do want peace, they just don't want to see the creation of an independant Palestinian state,for those who continue with the notion that the Palestinian's don't want Israel to exist--tit for tat), they will be the bigger losers seeing as they still have something to lose unlike the Palestinian's.
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