New York Times’ Friedman gloats as Arafat lies near death.

The same thing that I wrote of. Not a nice picture of Friedman himself.

The problems in the peace negoations in Palestine are not really individual persons or their personality. There´s one simple problem, which by the way is the same in the question of Western Sahara; the international community, where the Western countries, especially the USA, hold the reins, are not ready to force the occupying power to make concessions. Instead they pressurize the people that are the victims, the whose land is occupied, demanding concessions from them, and if they get them, then the government of the occupying country demands more concessions, seeing the concessions already made as a sign of weakness and as nobody is ready to pressurize them, they have no qualms about the way the negotiations proceed and eventually get stuck.