After Arafat--Opportunity?

Caroline B. Glick--formerly an Israeli negotiator, now deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post--is pessimistic:

In their usual vacuous and ridiculous style, pundits, experts and politicians in Israel and from around the world have been mouthing off over the past week about Israel using the opportunity of Arafat's death to strengthen the "reformist" elements in the PA. Fat chance of that working. There are no "reformist" elements in the PA. And anyone inside the PA who would dare speak of making changes to the way things are done would immediately be attacked, if not murdered, for daring to question Arafat's legacy. . . .

If something doesn't give, we can expect that nothing will change now that Arafat's dead and buried. Our enlightened "peace" supporters on the Left have already begun exhorting the Israeli government to help our Palestinian enemies . . . while ignoring our Palestinian friends, whom we can barely find anymore, because so many of them have been killed that the ones who still draw breath are afraid to come forward.

(via LGF)