Reply #51: Arafat's faults [View All]

You admitted here to some very serious faults in a leader, an autocratic leader at that, who weilds most of the power in the political establishments, yet you call him not responsible for measures to deal with the results of his "negative behavior".

by your reasoning, a criminal who is tried and sentenced to jail is not responsible for being in jail. An obvious logical falicy.

But Arafat is NOT responsible for Israel's inhumanitarian policies in the West Bank and Gaza.

The policies are not inhumane, they place restrictions on the Palestinian people because of Arafat's continued call for Jihad and resistance against Israel's actions to root out terrorism. If all the people resist this sweep for terrorists, they, by their actions, are also responsible. The make the effort much more difficult than it neeeds to be, and put their lives and their children's lives in danger.