Sorry, Mary, lets let the other Arabian states line up to give any Palestinian who wants a place to live, sanctuary before we invite them into our countries. For all of that, the Palestinians have a place to live, the area they fled to, after many attempts to dislodge the Israelis from what is now Israel. All they have to do is agree to live in peace with their neighbors, something they certainly were unwilling to do with Arafat fanning the flames of hatred, terrorism, and resistance.

    Arafat was a terrorist, the founder of Fatah, which evolved into the PLO, back when both he and it were forced to relocate into lands like Syria, to continue their resistance to the UN sanctioned, Israeli rule of Israel. Among their many excesses, includingf the hyjacking of aircraft, the PLO claimed credit for the assasination of Israeli atheletes at the 1972 Sumjer Olympics. As time went on the PLO was surpassed by Hamas and other terrorist resistance groups who are still operating in these disputed areas, and the PLO has become more of a Palestinian solidarity group than the effective organization of its birth.

   Back in 1994 he and Israeli leaders hammered out a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David, for which effort he and both Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were honored with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dave