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Originally posted by SFKing
he had said he was going to acheive so many things. such as peace. make israil apart of palistine. but he never did. he told that he was going to accomplish this many years ago.

before he was elected he was the most prominent face of Palestinian opposition to Israel, first as the head of the PLO, which carried out terrorist attacks against Israeli targets, and later as the head of the quasi-governmental Palestinian Authority, after parts of the West Bank and Gaza were returned to Palestinian control.

Dude...you'd be pissed if a country denied that you were even a citizen of the U.S., wouldn't you? That's what Israelis did to Palestinians. True...there's no country called Palestine...but that doesn't mean they're not people. You'd probably also be a little pissed that a certain government (*ahem*...that would be us) gave someone intent on destroying you tanks and gunships and gave you nothing. They throw rocks and stick, the Israelis shoot back and pretend it's all legitimate. Sure, Hammas has staged a lot of suicide bombings in the past few years (though Arafat has no real ties to Hammas) and the PLO undertook a few terrorist acts of their own. But by that time the PLO was so heavily divided into so many groups it was unclear who really did it...but Arafat always seemed to take the shit for it. Trust me...it's a big deal that he's dead. Now that area of the world can either start to work towards peace and a sovereign Palestinian state (which would mean wasting less of our tax dollars on bullets and bombs to Israel) or it can explode into even more violence.