Plus ca change-----Change in PA or no peace

Suha Arafat's rant against leaders of the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat's heirs apparent earlier in the week was revealing in many ways. On a basic level, it showed much about the nature of the PA and the PLO which Arafat has built and led. Arafat's wife, who had been estranged from him more or less since they were married, had thrown down the gauntlet. Her beef with everyone was over the loot that Arafat amassed over all these years – money he made by bilking the international community for aid and shaking down Palestinians in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and around the Arab world for pay-offs. She wanted the money – estimated at somewhere in the neighborhood of $6.5 billion – and she wasn't going to let her brain-dead hubby be taken off the feeding tube until she got it.

For their part, everyone from Mahmoud Abbas to Ahmed Qurei to Saeb Erekat on down Arafat's food chain suddenly protestied. The money, they said belongs to the Palestinian people and therefore, they, not she, should be given the codes to the secret bank accounts where Arafat stashed it (after he stole it from the Palestinian people – which they don't say).

You know what just dawned on me?

The muslim world is in chaos at this very moment:

Arafat is dead.
The Dutch are showing their intolerance.
We're starting to hear more and more about al-qada's nuke.
That one moose got hit by a car in Canada.

The muslim world is now on center stage right now. What happens at this point is up to them.

The corrupt governments of the middle-east need to be exposed more and more. Generations of arabs are sacrificing their lives in the name of allah, when in reality, this is about greed and power and money.

The PLO is an Arab mafia. Arafat was the godfather but all these cronies Abbas, Qurie, Dahlan, Rashid, Barghouti, etc were the captains. They ran the criminal enterprise and paid up to the godfather his share for being godfather. They still kept a good portion of it for themselves.

Now that the godfather is dead the captains dont have to pay up anymore. But they have to pretend that they are actually officials of some quasi government. Obviously they are criminals and don't care, nor do they know how, to run a government that can deliver the people's basic needs. They skim too much and there is too little to go around anyway.

It will be interesting to watch them try to play politics. Maybe they will try to cut a quick deal with Israel so that they can become real diplomats and carry on their corruption as real leaders of a country, but this assumes they all agree not to cooperate. They will use state funds to pay for their police/soldiers/bodyguards/extortionists. Or maybe we will see these criminals all to line up together against Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Mussa Arafat if Hamas tries to take political power and Mussa feels cut out of the deals.

I hope no Israelis are murdered anymore by these thugs.

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