MER - The terrible cost of Arafat's lost history of corruption, incomptence, and cronyism

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Arafat's decades of corruption, incompetence, and cronyism have greatly contributed to the terrible predicament faced today by Palestinian people. Now the Israelis, and the Americans, are working ceaselessly to create an Arafat-run police state, a civil war, and then the fragmentation and subjugation of Palestinians and their supporters everywhere. Even so, how this is done, and who is blamed, and with what results, are matters everyone is competing to control -- both in reality and in commentary. </body>