[Jhoffa_]

This is the very definition of why pandering never works. Clinton's cronies set up Barak to win, then used him to get Israel to commit national suicide. Yassir would have none of it. He, along with the vast majority of his Muslim bretheren, want Israel to be pushed into the sea.

Exactly, but I have always wondered why he didn't take it.

I mean, Yassir's MO is well known to everyone by now. Cry peace, then attack..

I always wondered why he didn't take the land, play nice and then cause the peace to break down, just like always.. Except now he has the land.

Maybe he got a case of the bighead. Since he became the most frequent visitor to the Clinton White House, maybe he thought he could wait for more and he would eventually get it.

I just can't believe he didn't take the land today and then return to tricks as usual tomorrow. It's how he works, you can set your watch by his flip flopping.

But this one time, he didn't do it.

[rdb3]

Exactly, but I have always wondered why he didn't take it.

Keep it here in the U.S. to find your answer. Once you achieve your main goal, the power and prestige of desiring the goal vanishes. Think of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and all of their ilk. They don't want anything solved because if things were solved, they wouldn't have any more power.

Same thing goes for Arafat. He'd rather have the issue than the culmination of the goal.