no arafat made an incedible mess for the palestenians...their society is run by several overlapping groups of pseudo freedom fighters who also have a bad habit of "shaking down the locals" for donations. How they are going to rein them in, is a very sensitive subject
and I really dont have to go int to the details of them settling their own scores via the gun, do I? (100 Palestinians were killed by Palestinian civilians on suspicion of collaborating with Israel. 19 of them were killed while held in the custody of the Palestinian security forces-
http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/Al_Aqsa_Fatalities_Tables.asptheir freedom of the press, was stilfled when arafat and company 'came to town". etc. etc etc etc. He created a socity of the "tunisians vs the locals"....and its the tunisians that run the place.
their society has a long way to go as its a mixture of some western ideals, traditional arab/islamic culture mixed in with a the addition of the gun culture.
they will have to straighten themselves out, as well as take responsability for their own society without "blaming anybody else for it...as that is the first step toward independence. This no doubt will be a difficult step as it requires admitting ones faults, going through self criticism, etc. But without that, they have little hope of going on to the next step which involves civil rights for all (this would be a first for an arab/islamic country) hence they have a lot to do.