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With those missiles going in on the West Bank and Gaza, Israel has a green light as far as I am concerned. Not mentioned is the arms shipment that brought "them" in. Arafat's been a busy little bastard.

We all think and feel this way..myself included..however, the price Israel will have to pay for this action will be terrible...you're talking about block to block street warfare, with thousands of Palestinians descending on the streets of Terl Aviv to cause terror and violence....it's a hard price to pay..but it may be necessary...also, if Israel goes that route, she either has to kill thousands of the PLO, or incarcerate them forever..

Arafat cannot hope to compete with Sharon in this game. Sharon has laid trap after trap for him going back to before Sharon was PM, and Arafat falls into every one. This is the last trap. Sharon is a master chess player and has maneuvered carefully. Arafat is in check, and he's about to be check-mated.

Sharon has gone around and cleaned up a lot of weapons caches, the tunnels, the bomb factory... but he has allowed these missiles to be deployed. Sharon knows that as soon as the missiles fly, he will get the green light to wipe the PA out.

Arafat probably has a few other tricks up his sleeve. He may order an assault on Jerusalem or another Israeli town in conjunction with these missile attacks -- but they cannot hope to prevail. It will be his last hurrah, to be martyred for Jerusalem, which his people will now never have a part of.