Arafat dies in 1992

[MrHola]

Yassar Arafat had a brush with death in April 1992 when a plane he was in crash-landed in the Libyan desert. The pilot and several passengers were killed, Arafat suffered several broken bones and other injuries. What if Arafat had died in the crash?

Who would be his successor? What would be the consequences for the negotiations with Israel in the '90s?

[bouscher]

Honestly? the world would have been better off without him...I can't tell you how sorry the Israeli population is for the 93 pact...so many years of terrorism...

[Hannibal.Caesar]

Originally Posted by bouscher

Honestly? the world would have been better off without him...I can't tell you how sorry the Israeli population is for the 93 pact...so many years of terrorism...

True, but I don't think the Israelis would be sitting pretty with him gone either. I don't know how likely a situation like what we have right now in Gaza would be, but I don't think it could be discounted. Never mind his faults, Arafat did do a damn good job at holding the thousand different factions of the Palestinians together.

[MrHola]

Would Abbas still be his succsessor?