Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has lost the
campaign he has been waging against Israel over the past year,
and not to a Zionist infidel such as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
or Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz, but to a good Muslim Arab just
like himself - Osama bin Laden. The hypothesis that a regular
army cannot combat terrorism, which can only be handled with
terrorism, has been proved, albeit partially and indirectly. The
younger generation of terrorists has no respect for its elders.
A single hour of mass terror strikes against U.S. American
metropolises sent an entire year of Arafat's work down the
drain.  The decade that has gone by since the end of the Cold
War has made us lose track of the fundamentals of global
diplomacy: It is a system of nation states that are united in
global (UN) and regional (NATO, the European Union, the Arab
League) organizations; they have a legislature (the General
Assembly) and a government of sorts (the Security Council, with
the permanent members constituting the c