Of course, the IDF had several chances to fix Arafat under past decades.
But he was needed as a moderating and monitoring force for controlling the Palestinian policy and actions.
After the intifadeh and the emergence of Hamas and Jihad as the leading resistance forces against our occupation co-operation with Arafat and his PLO as a political and military buffer zone became inevitable.
Who's better than his dictatorship and corrupt adminstration to crush the hopes and dreams of the Palestinians and ruin their lifes. Now we need him more than Palestinians.
Sometimes he's really amazing as a clown.
Of cource, he's like our defence forces totally unable to detect or stop some Hamas and Jihad operations.
They're simply too sofisticated for our best professionals. But who in the whole Earth can manage to make it anyway?
Under meantimes we have really fun when he humiliate himself before US, promising this and that, telling his people this and that ... and beating this and that islamist.
We can hardly live without Arafat. So all dear die hard fans of Israel, don't blame us or US. We do our best to crush the life of Palestinians and their dreams as well.
You have two choices. You have to simply believe us or you have simply to believe US!