I KNEW Arafat was offered part of Jerusalem. Every piece of information I retained about these negotiations claimed that Jerusalem should never have been part of the exchange because it was a loaded issue. I felt the Israelis had totally redeemed themselves for whatever militancy they had been accused of in the past with this deal. Now I find out they went even farther than I had heard...
G*d D*mn Arafat to the lowest Hell.
The mistake was redeeming Arafat from Libya in 93. He represented no one. In those days there was a semblance of order in the territories. In the hopes of creating a state, Israel turned over jurisdiction to all those drunken, crazy cowboys in the old movies, with that evil trail boss in command. But the Marshall wasn't allowed in town, and Yasser ran off with the herd and the gold.
Can you imagine John Wayne negotiating with Arafat?