Sharon and Arafat spent years exacerbating the problems with their personal animosities....it is ironic that Sharon was hit with this stroke just as he was learning a bit about pragmatism.

If he is unable to return, let's hope his successor and Arafat's can sit down and ***COMPROMISE***...and that the hotheads on both sides will even try to make a compromise work! There are young fools on both sides who have made unyielding hate a part of their credo....sad....