[LarryM]

The Economist is a rabidly Anti-Israel publication. You can see from the bias in the article. Arafat "did not prevent terrorist attacks" was their formulation. The fact is he deliberately planned and executed a terrorist war. His intelligence chief (named Tirawi) runs the whole terrorist operation.

[monkeyshine]

They think they try to be balanced about it.

[dennisw]

The Economist is a rabidly Anti-Israel publication. You can see from the bias in the article.

Yup... The usual crud from these Brits. I could care less if Arafat is gone. Even the Israel haters on this forum detest Arafat who just ain't cool anymore it seems.

If someone worse than Arafat comes in or PallieLand sinks into fratricidal chaos who really cares? I sure don't.
If Pallies grow more crazy then Israel gets a chance to really wrap up the whole deal once and for all/