After Arafat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1349399,00.html
There is little to suggest Sharon will seize this chance
Ewen MacAskill
Friday November 12, 2004
The Guardian
There are two basic scenarios for what will happen to the Palestinians
in the post-Arafat era: the optimistic and the pessimistic.
The optimistic one, and it is extremely optimistic, goes like this.
Sharon has lost his excuse for not negotiating with the Palestinians:
that Arafat was untrustworthy. His death opens the way for
negotiations with his successors. Those successors, the present prime
minister, Ahmed Qureia, and the former prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas,
now free from Arafat, will be able to maintain a reasonable level of
order in the West Bank. With US, Egyptian and British help, they will
build a police service capable of maintaining law and order and, if
necessary, suppressing Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two main Islamist
groups.
Ewen MacAskill
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