[FreeReporting]

At the moment it is difficult for Palestinians to voice comments that don't agree with the official hard line. It is sincerely to be hoped that Abu Mazen's government will change this. Unfortunately there are all those who were indoctrinated while they were children by the Hamas school system.

[Alouette]

It is sincerely to be hoped that Abu Mazen's government will change this.

I'm not holding my breath or anything.

[Salem]

"At the moment it is difficult for Palestinians to voice comments that don't agree with the official hard line. It is sincerely to be hoped that Abu Mazen's government will change this."

Unfortunately, nothing will change.

Arafat and any Palistinian who purports to replace him are simply miniature renditions of Hussein. The UN funds poured into the PA, like the proceeds from the sale of "oil for food" under UN sanctions and agreements against Iraq, go into the dictators and tyrannts own pockets, squirreled away or squandered to build "palaces" while the people starve. The young Palistinian's comments in this article reinforces that fact; graphic evidence from post-war Iraq does as well.

Yet, if Israel was to cut through all the mountainous BS (UN ineffectiveness, world opinion, etc.) like Bush did, initiate a final campaign against Ramallah to execute "regime change" in the PA and whack Arafat and the whole bunch like we did Saddam in Iraq, they would be immediately isolated and attacked - especially from liberal elements within the U.S. government and those who adhere to the "Palistinian" myth.

Such is the lunacy Sharon and Israel has to contend with.