Sideline Arafat Boost Abbas
Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) is a brave leader who has argued that the recourse to terrorism has been a disaster for the Palestinians. His Finance minister is cleaning up the cesspool of corruption that is the Palestinian Authority. He has asked a new security chief to centralize and tame the dozen, often competing, militias that pass for Palestinian police forces. But it was he who probably kept the photograph with Sharon out of circulation for fear of looking like an Israeli stooge....