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Arafat was a secular and moderate leader of Palestinians
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Ive got this really nice bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn, and I'll sell it to you at a bargain price.
[/ QUOTE ]Arafat was a leader in a national liberation struggle. If you were to peruse a bit your History, instead of using the tomes to balance the dinner table, you would become aware of the brutality associated with every such struggle. When comparing Arafat's way of doing things with African or Latin American movements' and with Israel's, especially during the years around independence, you see that he was less, possibly far less brutal.
There are shades in everything. It is a gross generalisation to lump the secular moderates of Fatah along the religious fundamentalists or the Marxist/Leninist/Stalinists of PFLP offshoouts. Onme does so at one's preil. And Israel decided, in the end, albeit after a bit of American pressure, to finally talk and deal with Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation, even though he was officially considered a terrorist and the PLO was, for the State Dept, a terrorist organisation.
Somehow I don't think Israel is too fond of Brooklyn bridges.
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