(Times-UK/BICOM)Editorial- The Prime Minister would like to help to ensure that the post-Arafat Palestinian Authority is far less corrupt, considerably more professional with security issues, and a lot better at economic management than its predecessor. Internal change is crucial to external prospects. Even moderate Israeli voters are unlikely to want to cede territory (and, with it, trust that the land lost will not become a haven for terrorists) to anything that resembles a failed state. There is, however, another crucial player. It is Egypt’s responsibility to ensure that arms are not smuggled over its borders (or under them in tunnels) to terrorists.
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