Just heard the news that Abdel Rantissi has been assassinated by Israel. I think that a) either the Israelis have a death wish or b) Israel is in its death throes in which it is blindly lashing out at everybody. Is Arafat the next target?

The fastest way for the Palestinians to achieve their objective is to do what that Vietnamese monk did as a protest against the American invasion of his country. If each suicide bomber, instead of blowing himself and a bunch of other people up, announced that he is going to simply blow himself up at a pre-announced, cordoned-off spot, and does so, world opinion will turn in a matter of weeks. Whatever little remaining support that the 'shitty little country' has will vanish in a jiffy.

Are there no sane persons left in Israel?