Arafat turned down the Barak Peace Plan and unleashed the armed, homicidal intifada. He's turned the West Bank into a corrupt armed camp fiefdom and the schools into terrorist incubators. As a result, the Israelis elected an inflexible and unyielding military leader to defend themselves.
Where do you go from here? Someone has to represent the Palestinians in negotiations, but the PLA and Hamas are terribly compromised. The Arab States use the Palestinians as if they were brainless pawns, which they have been. The only way we get peace is to replace the Arab regimes that promote Palestinian obduracy; starting with Iraq, and ending with Saudi Arabia, if necessary.