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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned Thursday's suicide bombing in Jerusalem, promising to "put an end to such attacks" and work toward a cease-fire after 18 months of violence with Israel.

Arafat's statement, just like every similar statement he's made on the subject is a calculated, bald-faced lie. He orders the attacks to achieve his goals of terrorzing Israeli society, killing Jews and starting a war that will bring him control over lots more than the "West Bank." After ordering the attacks, he makes a perfunctory condemnation aimed at the naive morons in the Western World. After that, he immediately begins planning for the next attack. Why do we continue to appease him, continue to believe that he ever tells the truth, continue to reward him by sending high-level negotiators and, finally, why do we continue to condemn Israel for taking very restrained actions to prevent attacks on its civilian population, while at the same time we are bombing the s--- out of Afghanistan? Don't get me wrong - I think that the US policy toward terrorism is correct, perhaps even a bit soft. I just don't understand the public hypocracy implied in condemning Israel for doing less than we are and dignifying Arafat by treating him like a stateman. Maybe the US should stop all operations in Afghanistan and offer to negotiate with Bin Laden or Mullah Omar?

Sick,evil, old demented Arafat has been used by other Arab states, who don't WANT the Palestinians anywhere near their cities and borders, to harass Israel. He's been financed by them to foment a continuing crisis for the globe, and he's been a willing pawn. Now he nears the end of his usefulness, and no one has paid any attention to him for years. He's a puppet and has no power to make any decisions for the Palestinians, as evidenced by his refusal of the most generous offer ever made to any of those scum, under Clinton. The US is right not to talk with him, he's a nothing, a nobody.

Giving him publicly a position he does not hold privately, by having VP Cheney talk with him, serves nothing and no one.

Your analysis is 100% correct. Arafat and other PLO liars talk peace and demand Israel out of the "occupied territories" while other Pallies plan their next attack on Israeli civilians.

Then when Israel tries to clean up the terrorist rat's nests in places like Ramallah, the world condemns Israel and the mass media spin it against her!