(Newsweek) - Many Palestinians are now openly blaming Arafat for leading them to ruin. "Eight years ago he came to Gaza and Jericho and said, 'I'll make it into Hong Kong.' Instead he turned it into Somalia," says a Bethlehem schoolteacher. Arafat is routinely attacked for mismanaging the uprising, as well as for allowing corruption and cronyism to flourish in his government. Hussam Khader, a Fatah leader from Nablus and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, says, "When Arafat disappears, they will write about his criminality and his catastrophes."
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