Posted on 10/28/2004 5:26:46 AM PDT by SJackson
Focus turns to power vacuum, worries of coming chaos
(KRT) The sudden decline in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's health Wednesday night has widened a power vacuum that has already grown into a chasm in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, and opens the real possibility of chaos and civil war in one of the world's most dangerous regions.
Arafat, 75, who has been struggling with what doctors say is severe flu and gallstones, weakened significantly Wednesday night, heightening concerns that Palestinians are ill-prepared for their leader's death.
The passing of the 75-year-old Palestinian leader would be an event on the scale of the death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. As president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Arafat has no equal and no one shares his stature or legacy.
Notorious for keeping his own counsel and pushing away those who threaten him, Arafat has not groomed a successor. And the expected chaos that Arafat's passing would trigger within the Palestinian territories could further confound the already-complicated calculus of the Middle East peace process.
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It is true... Eventually evil men die of old age, disease, and other natural causes. But until they die, a lot of good people pay the price in blood and tears.
So why let bad men live any longer than it takes to find them and kill them? They're pretty easy to identify. Genocidal maniacs that sponsor terrorism require no moral conviction to identify, just a little bit of human decency.
He's dead Jim!
Now the PA Islamofascists are having a little internal bloodletting to see who gets to share the riches. May they kill each other.
Palestinians are not ill prepared for Arafat's demise, they will default to murder and savagery as is their wont.
Paleostinians will be a lot better off without this old terrorist.
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