Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Well done Hosni Mubarak
They're joking in Israel, says Ha'aretz, that Arafat deserves a (second) Nobel Prize for having died.
And much of the hopeful news - since Arafat died there is an amazing amount of optimism - seems to be generated via Egypt.
The atmosphere seems not dissimilar to that when Anwar Sadat made his famous visit to Israel 35 years ago. Israelis say that when Sadat made peaceful overtures they were felt, genuinely and at a visceral level, by the population at large, as this item shows they are being felt right now.
Mubarak's brave initiative continues
