Ehud Yaari: Arafat's goal: Palestinian state absorbing Israel and Jordan

"The first thing we have to recognize is that today's conflict is not an
'intifada' - a popular uprising - but a premeditated war; chapter two of the
Palestinian war of independence," said Yaari who opened the conference. "The
Palestinian state that Yasser Arafat is building will be a hostile state,
for which the 1967 borders mean nothing. Palestinians today speak of
reversing the results of 1948 and of absorbing Jordan."

Yaari said that Arafat is purposefully collapsing the state organs of the
Palestinian Authority, which Arafat himself heads, making room for the new,
emerging power in the West Bank and Gaza - a coalition between Hamas and the
Tanzim. "This is not only a partnership in terror, but a long term political
coalition, with dangerous implications for Israel," said Yaari. "We finished
up with a draw in the first intifada. This time, a draw constitutes
disaster. Israel must decisively win this round of conflict."
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Mideast analysts Ehud Yaari (Channel Two TV News), Excerpt from BESA
Bulletin May 2002, No. 14
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/bulletin/14-1.htm