11/14/2004 06:56:44 AM|||Toni|||I personally don't think so and to some extent Caroline Glick who has been reporting on the PA for years doesn't either. But she does have some interesting points to be made especially with George W. Bush having a second term. The original point of the article is only tangentially Suha Arafat. I guess the notion of stealing from the EU is a family tradition though.

Two points from Caroline:
In their usual vacuous and ridiculous style, pundits, experts and politicians in Israel and from around the world have been mouthing off over the past week about Israel using the opportunity of Arafat's death to strengthen the "reformist" elements in the PA. Fat chance of that working. There are no "reformist" elements in the PA. And anyone inside the PA who would dare speak of making changes to the way things are done would immediately be attacked, if not murdered, for daring to question Arafat's legacy.

The president went on to call for economic transparency and an end to official corruption of the PA. If Bush intends to stand by his statement now that Arafat is dead, then so long as Israel's Left doesn't wreck his plan, there is for the first time an opportunity to change the way things are done around here. The only chance this has, however, is if there is a true Palestinian regime change and the PLO goes the way of Arafat



|||110043742449002040|||Is there any hope for Israel??