In 1974, Arafat's PLO seized a school in the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot, killing 21 children and 4 adults. The early '70s murders were just the beginning. Arafat's life consists of a long list of terrorist attacks. Arafat praised "martyrs" and provided assistance to their families. According to Human Rights Watch:

The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Social Affairs says that it provides a small monthly sum to the family of any person killed or injured in confrontations with Israeli forces or settlers. . . . The PA makes no apparent effort to limit special payments by others to the families of suicide bombers who attack civilians.

Arafat stole money from the Palestinians. Some Israelis estimate his "net worth" at $11 billion. Forbes calculates it at a mere $300 million, but last year, Israel's chief of military intelligence listed Arafat's personal assets at more than $1.3 billion. Whatever the actual amount, not bad pay for terrorism.

In 1996, Arafat said, "We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem." And following Arafat's refusal to accept a deal in the waning days of the Clinton administration, Arafat launched the second Intifada, a terror war that, from Sept. 29, 2000, through Nov. 7, 2004, claimed 3,250 Palestinian and 942 Israeli lives. To put this in terms of the U.S. population, that is equivalent to 285,212 Palestinian and 44,715 Israeli deaths.

Arafat refused to share power. Under international pressure, Yasser Arafat appointed Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister. Abbas resigned after four months in office when Arafat refused to grant him any real power.

Arafat's culture of hatred means Palestinians learn to hate Jews from the womb to the tomb.
According to polls by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, 60 percent of Palestinians support "suicide attacks." From an early age, Palestinian children learn from Israel-absent maps to hate Israelis and to seek the destruction of the State of Israel.

Three years ago, columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote:

Arafat is embarked on a strategy of war -- and has been ever since he signed the September 1993 Oslo 'peace' accords on the White House lawn. Don't take it from me. Take it from the mouth of one of the leading Palestinian moderates, Faisal Husseini. Shortly before his fatal heart attack last year, he openly admitted that Oslo was 'a Trojan Horse . . . just a temporary procedure . . . just a step toward something bigger.' That something bigger is 'Palestine from the river to the sea,' Husseini said, i.e., from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. That means eradicating Israel.  Oslo? Just a way of 'ambushing the Israelis and cheating them.'

So much for the "peace process."