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Source: http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Salim_Mansur/2004/08/02/pf-566791.html
Arafat's Second Intifada Was a Fraud
(Toronto Sun) Salim Mansur- The newest turmoil in Gaza is directed against the brutally corrupt administration of Arafat and his henchmen. In September 2000, Arafat engineered a second intifada which, unlike the first, was a fraud, providing Islamists a cover for unleashing a war of a new sort against Israel waged by suicide bombers. It wrote the obituary for the Oslo Accord. Arafat turned the promise of his return to Palestine into a hell for his people. He destroyed the internal leadership that had emerged in the wake of the first intifada, placed his cronies from exile into positions of influence, and ran the territories as a police state. Arafat's behavior as another Arab tyrant has been deeply humiliating to Palestinians.