Rising crisis over Arafat health. More.

BBC is wrong to claim that there are no "clear succession". If the president dies, the speaker of the parlament becomes the acting president for two months, if I remember correctly, during which time presidential elections will be held. The problem is of course that Israel will try to sabotage them in the East Jerusalem. Palestinians can´t give up in this, as it would mean losing East Jerusalem and probably violence would flare up in the West Bank as worse as it has been in Gaza, where most of the 165 Palestinians that Israel murdered last month died.

Imagine the amount of whining and crocodile tears in the West if 165 Israeli Jews would have died in a single month killed by Palestinians... The lives of Jews are more important than the lives of Arabs because Germans and their collaborators committed a genocide against the Jews 60 years ago. There´s probably some great inscight in to the human nature here, but I think that I rather let the facts to speak for themselves.