President Bush has now made it clear that the Palestinian terrorists, and Arafat himself, are the enemies of a peaceful solution and the obstacles to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The president made it clear that it is up to the Palestinians to stop the terrorism and to democratically elect a non-terrorist government.

Of course, the goal of terrorist organizations like Hamas is to actually prolong the occupation for as many decades as it takes to establish a fundamentalist Muslim state. They send their suicide bombers in with the intent of drawing in the Israelis.