Halleluiah, I can see the light!

What revelations have led to this?

Arafat ready to accept Clinton plan

NABLUS, West Bank (CNN) -- At the end of a week in which Palestinians killed 31 Israelis in terror attacks, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat told a newspaper he was ready to accept a proposal first made by U.S. President Bill Clinton as a framework for a Mideast peace settlement.

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Clinton's plan offered Palestinians control of most, but not all of the territory taken by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, and called for Palestinians to scale back their demand for the right of return of refugees, a move Palestinian officials said earlier this week they were willing to make.

Isn't this what many have been saying all along, that Arafat walked away from a deal that gave him something like 95% of what he was asking? Now it's good enough? What made the difference?

Oh, maybe that even his supporters are saying he's useless? Hmm, could be....

And this is just cynical:

Arafat also told Jerusalem daily Ha'aretz that "foreign forces" were exploiting hopeless Palestinians, persuading them to carry out suicide attacks against Israelis. He said two families of suicide bombers from Jenin were paid $30,000 each.

What, he's not getting his cut any more? To even imply that he didn't know this was going on, despite all the press coverage to the contrary, is just too ludicrous for words.

And the CNN story quoted above leaves this little tidbit out of the original article:

He also said he had imposed a house arrest on Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza. His advisers have expressed amazement that Israel has not taken any steps against Hamas and Islamic Jihad, preferring to focus its military campaign against the Palestinian Authority and Fatah.

Sounds like it should read, "I can't control them, they don't like me, please eliminate my internal opposition!"

But maybe that's the cynic in me.