Yasser DOES have something to gain by allying with Binny - or Binny's successor: many of his own terrorists are members of al Qaeda as well as the PLO, Hezballah, al Aksa, etc. His potential enemies are WITHIN his own regime. If Yasser doesn't do what al Qaeda wants him to do, all al Qaeda has to do is give the word to it's operatives: instant Pali "uprising" against Yasser's regime. Yasser, being a coward like all terrorist dictators, has to be fully aware of this fact.
Conversely, Yasser stands to lose if he allies with al Qaeda: American pounding of him in the process of pounding al Qaeda in the PA territores and Lebanon...it HAS to go hand in hand. No sense in pounding Pali terrorists if we don't simultaneously pound Lebanon, because the Palis will just run for Lebanon, which will continue to protect them.
Yasser's obvious solution to this little problem: insist in public his terrorist regime has no ties to al Qaeda, while SECRETLY allying with them..or just giving them the nod and letting them continue to operate in his territories.
Yasser knows this solution will work: look at all the public support he gained by insisteng he wants peace with Israel, that Israel is the aggressor and denouncing Pali murder of innocent civilians...while encouraging it and having his state controlled media constantly telling Palis that there ARE no innocent Israelis, so kill them all. Heck, some idiots are even convinced the PA isn't a terrorist organization. Al Qaeda is most definitely NOT working against Pali terrorist interests: one of it's stated goals, like Yasser's stated goal, is the annihlation of the state of Israel, and the birth (for the first time in history) of a state of Palestine. Yasser hates America too...he's just too cowardly and small minded to attack us openly yet.
Lebanon doesnt need to be RECKONED with...they need to be processed like the rest of the Terrorist Scumbag nests..