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11/11/2004:

"History will judge Arafat harshly: Howard"

Prime Minister John Howard says Yasser Arafat will be remembered as a leader who failed to grasp an opportunity for peace in the Middle East.

..."I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted," he said.
abc.net.au

Whose history? The history that claims the 2000 deal represents "90% of what the Palestinians had wanted?" Any fair history, which is quaintly referred to as 'revisionist' these days, will judge most harshly the aggression of Bush and his buddies, Howard included.