KILL ARAFAT?
Ehud Olmert, the vice prime minister of Israel says that killing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is an option in its threat to "remove" him. Link

President Arafat is not one of my favorite people. But the idea of simply killing anyone who is an enemy is totally absurd (can you imagine the ripple effect!). The raising of the idea is short-sighted and inexcusable. And it demonstrates that the Israelis aren't playing with a full deck -- or at the very least aren't hitting on all cylinders. They aren't any more serious about creating peace than the Palestinians. Someone in this quagmire has to start acting like an adult.