CarolC,

You're changing the subject again. Sure the roadblocks suck and need to go. But why is it relevant to Arafat being so damn rich and yet supposedly a dispossessed refugee who cares deeply for his people? You'd rather not contemplate this, so you bring up irrelevancies like the Pentagon budget and roadblocks in the West Bank. We can all agree on the roadblocks being a bad thing without it having the slightest bearing on the historical questions we've been discussing, or on the fact that the Palestinian refugees have by and large been screwed by other Palestinians, including Arafat, Hamas, and the entire country of Jordan.