We need Arafat! Please don't go!

On Arutz Sheva a scary point is being made: Israel is lost without Arafat! Why? Because Arafat is the only person who stood between the idiotic Israeli politicians and their desire to give away large parts of Israel!

Where would Israel be without Arafat? Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin (of blessed memory), began the giveaway to the Arabs of Egypt, Shimon Peres offered the Palestinian Arabs big chunks of Judea and Samaria, Yitzchak Rabin (of blessed memory) offered more, and even Binyamin Netanyahu offered parts of Israel; while Barak offered 95% of Judea and Samaria and Gaza. Now, Ariel Sharon is in charge of the big giveaway, but it is hard to give away land when there is no one to accept what the Israelis are giving away.

Without Arafat's intransigence and his unwillingness to compromise, there would be little left of Israel today. Arafat saved the land many times over by being intractable about what the Israelis were offering.

If Arafat, G-d forbid, dies, then Israel's liberal establishment will fall all over itself to offer more and more parts of Israel to any weak Arab leader that arises.

I guess it's true in a horrible kind of way: Yasser Arafat saved Israel more than any other person in the last 25 years or so.

What a sorry state Israel's leadership is in.