Newsflash: Arafat Wrecked the Peace Process
You can't fault JPost for carrying this story. In some quarters, this is still a legitimate debate:
On US President George W. Bush's Inauguration Day in 2001, outgoing president Bill Clinton "talked repeatedly all day long about his disappointment in [Palestinian Authority Chairman] Yasser Arafat, how Arafat had, in effect, torpedoed the peace process," Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday.
Clinton blamed Arafat several times for the failure of the 2000 peace negotiations at Camp David and for the collapse of the peace process. Cheney's description of Inauguration Day illustrated how prominent Arafat's contribution to the failed talks was in the outgoing president's mind during his last moments in office.
On US President George W. Bush's Inauguration Day in 2001, outgoing president Bill Clinton "talked repeatedly all day long about his disappointment in [Palestinian Authority Chairman] Yasser Arafat, how Arafat had, in effect, torpedoed the peace process," Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday.
Clinton blamed Arafat several times for the failure of the 2000 peace negotiations at Camp David and for the collapse of the peace process. Cheney's description of Inauguration Day illustrated how prominent Arafat's contribution to the failed talks was in the outgoing president's mind during his last moments in office.
