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Benjamin Netanyahu was deposed by the people of Israel for meeting with the same Arafat and promoting Oslo Lite. It appears he got their message. I am one who does believe in second chances and it is refreshing when someone sees the error of their ways. It is all the more important to remove Arafat from power and establish a security cordon to protect Israel from the threat of reactivated terrorism in the future. Netanyahu is absolutely correct about one issue: no political process and no peace will be possible in the Middle East as long as Arafat and the regime he heads remain around to wreak more havoc. To quote from President Bush himself, "enough is enough." We must deal with all terrorists everywhere according to the same basic principle: they must be consigned to absolute, total, and utter destruction. There must be no compromise with them and their ilk. They must not be accorded legitimacy or be rewarded for their violence. The time to stop them is now.

They must not be accorded legitimacy.....

Agreed 100 percent.
Nevertheless, Colon Powell accords Arafat legitimacy by meeting with him.
We still haven't learned.

Faced with the quintessential terrorist regime of our time – a regime that both harbors and perpetrates terror on an unimaginable scale – the free world is muddling its principles, losing its nerve, and thereby endangering the successful prosecution of this war. The question many in my country are now asking is this: Will America apply its principles consistently and win this war, or will it selectively abandon those principles and thereby ultimately lose the war?
That is the question of the century.

Netanyahu was sold out and trashed by Clinton. He recieved no support from him. And Clinton undercut him at every opportunity. I believe Natanyahu did support certain peace proposals in the interest of finding peace for his people and the Palestinians. I've heard him state very clearly that he wants peace for the innocent Palestinians too.

Whatever you think of him, he was not a part of the Barak agreements proposed 18 months ago. In my opinion Barak was ill-advised to offer what he did at that time. Clinton was licking his chops at the prospect of Israel's corpse in my opinion.

Netanyahu is a very capable good man. Perhaps this time he'll recieve some support from the US. After seeing Bush equivocate, I'm not betting on it.

I am ashamed of the wishy washy tactics of our President. He is not a good spokesperson for the Conservative cause. It's almost impossible to believe that he actually supports Israel.