World faces a Mideast minus Arafat | csmonitor.com

Arafat's demise will first be the elimination of one more terrorist. Second, his demise hopefully will make way for more sensible Palestinian leadership that will have some control over the terrorist groups. That's doubtful and I am not optimistic that things will change much in the near term. Israel is right to continue targeting and eliminating terrorist leaders until and unless they renounce their intent to eliminate the Jewish state.