Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: New Israeli search method at West Bank checkpoint worries Palestinians [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)and deny him the respect he was entitled to as head of the PA government.
And can you still seriously argue that discrediting the PLO had any positive results at all? It didn't lead, and clearly never could have led, to an alternative Palestinian leadership that would have accepted Israel's insistence that Palestinians settle for less-than-full sovereignty(such as no control of their own airspace, no control of the water supply, and no means to defend themselves against IDF military incursions-in, other words, sovereignty-on-sufferance and sovereignty that would always be provisional). What it DID lead to was Hamas. You would agree in retrospect, I hope, that no good whatsoever actually came of the PLO being "defanged", right? Anyone would have to agree on that, since the only result of the PLO being "defanged" was the rise of Hamas.