I'm reading through my blogs, as I do of a morning before going to work, and
I see on Citizen Smash's blog a
link
to a
Reuters' story about the failing health and possible demise of Yasser Arafat
- at various times Palestinian head of Government, strongman, and terrorist; in
parallel and in series.
And I think to myself, "this is at least as much the end of an era as the
fall of the Berlin Wall". I venture that there is nobody in Palestine who can
take up the mantle of Yasser Arafat. As to what this means for Palestine, I
don't know. But who could predict what would happen when the Berlin Wall went
down?