(New York Daily News)Sidney Zion - The two men set to take over for Arafat - Mahmoud Abbas and Ahmed Qurei - were, respectively, the underboss and consigliere for his terrorist enterprise. They were with him on the mattresses, they were there when he killed the Olympic athletes in Munich, they were in the siege of Beirut, and they lived with him in Ramallah at the end. To say that these guys are moderates, that they are the hope of the future, is to say that when Carlo Gambino died, John Gotti was a peacemaker. Abbas and Qurei wear Brooks Brothers suits and manicure their nails, but check their words. They won't touch Hamas and they promote hatred against Jews. Nothing has changed.
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