With the 'Stealth Assassination' of Yasser Arafat, following a campaign to kill or imprison most of the popular Palestinian leaders that was greatly stepped up when Ariel Sharon became Israeli Prime Minister, the Arab-Israeli conflict does indeed enter a new phase. But the political cancer has already considerably metastacized region-wide and the 'two-state' cure is not really any longer possible....
"It's too late for the French military, or the discredited 'wife', or America's Palestinian Fix-It Man Nabil Sha'ath, to have any credibility. They've all now had plenty of extra time to doctor
the reports and destroy the evidence. Only a totally independent full-scale investigative Commission of Inquiry and complete autopsy would have any chance of being credible at this point."