Will he just fade away?

Published July 28, 2004

There is far more than Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's notorious inefficiency, authoritarianism and tolerance of corruption behind the violent protests against him that have just taken place in the Gaza Strip.

The 1.2 million Palestinians in Gaza live in the equivalent of an open-air jail that is grossly overcrowded, scandalously underfunded, and where the jailers are harsh and often brutal. Their...