Thursday, October 28, 2004
Yasser Arafat 'extremely ill'. LGF have baited breath and celebratory cakes on standby. The questions are, who will replace Arafat, what will Israel do, and will the Palestinian people accept someone who might be less intransigent to working with the Israelis than Arafat? In many ways this could be a 'good' time for Arafat to die and a power struggle to take place, Sharon is tied up trying to withdraw from Gaza to use this for a territory grab but the fact that reporters are already saying that some Palestinians are seeing this as a slow assasination attempt by Israel, rather than an old man dying after three years in poor living conditions, can't be good for the immediate future.
