With Palestinians set to choose a successor to terrorist-in-chief Yasser Arafat today, it remains very dubious whether the new guy, likely Mahmoud Abbas, will do any better. Abbas' has recently declared that he will not try to curb or stop terrorist groups like Hamas and that Palestinians have a right of return to Jerusalem. Some say that this rhetoric is simply intended not stir the pot within the Palestinian territories. Regardless, if Abbas or whomever the new guy is is unable to stop the terror against Israel than he will be no more successful in creating a sovereign Palestinian state than Arafat. The only way that Palestinians will ever receive that state is to defeat the extremist elements within their society dedicated to destroying Israel.
UPDATE (11:52 A.M.): Mahmoud Abbas appears to have won with exit polls showing him with about 66% of the vote.
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