Yasir Arafat, Good Riddance and R.I.P.

Yasir Arafat's death last night brings to the Holy Land a possiblity for peace between Israel and the Palestinians that did not exist while he lived. The Palestinian people, the Muslim world, and the media will ignore the blood on Arafat's hands in hopes of creating a nationalist hero from a mass murderer. They will overlook the stolen election, the disastorous second intifada, the graft and embezzlement, the exploitation of power, and countless decisions depriving Palestinians of peace and an autonmous state. Their rewriting of history will fail- the trail of blood and money is too telling. Moreso, if peace progresses between Israel and the Palestinians after Arafat's death, it will evidence the fact that peace was not possible while he lived. Good riddance and R.I.P.