Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
Well Arafat walked away from a deal 25 years at Camp David that would have given him a Palestinian state , it's capital in East Jerusalem , 96% of the West Bank and a further 4% of Israel .

A deal Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin paid for with his life even though Arafat walked away from it .

You have to wonder what great sense of injustice resided within his soul to turn that down ?

Something more powerful perhaps ?
I see that you have brought into the Israeli version of the deal that Arafat was offered at Camp David. You missed out the surrender of Palestinian mineral rights to Israel, the stationing of Israeli military forces in the proposed Palestinian state, the surrender of most of East Jerusalem and a host of other conditions that would have made it impossible for him to accept.

Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995 - 5 years before Camp David - making it hard to see how he could have died for what was offered there. He did pay for his desire to see peace with the Palestinians, however - he was killed by an ultra-conservative Jew - the people who now prop up Netanyahu's government and are shaping Israeli policy in Gaza and the West Bank.