[hchutch]

If Arafat remains as head of the PA, then the Palestinian people will have chosen. And at that point, Israel will be allowed to do as it must to ensure they can live in peace and security.

They must choose the course of their nation. They can choose to live peacefully with their Israeli neighbors, or they can choose the fate of the Taliban.

Once the choice is made, they must live with the consequences.

[Teacher317]

Well put...

Once the choice is made, they must live with the consequences

but what are these consequences? Nuking Mecca? Nude photos of Arafat leaked to Larry Flynt? Never again entertaining the idea of a Palestinian state? Less restaint of the IDF from America? More talks with no results other than more of the same? I would've been overjoyed to hear the "or else" (the stick), because Bush does seem to follow through on his word.