(National Review) David Frum - You don't have to spend a whole lot of time with Palestinians to hear how disgusted they are with Arafat's leadership. True, a great many of them are disgusted because that leadership is not violent enough for them - but a great many others do use the language of democracy and human rights in a way that is very promising. President Bush's great statement in June 2002 in favor of Palestinian democracy was driven, it seems to me, first and foremost by his sense that the immediate creation of a non-democratic Palestinian state (which many Europeans were demanding at the time) would be an invitation to a vast new round of terrorism and political instability in the Middle East.
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