Arafat

Who was this guy? A Noble Peace Prize-winning dignitary of freedom, or a monster who practically invented modern-day terrorism? Thoughts?

Here's a lenghty but well written bio on the guy from the Washington Post-- it's full of interesting tid-bits (he gave himself the name "Yasser" which means "easygoing" in Arabic), but I don't think it really answers my question. Surprisingly, it's hard to find anyone in the blogosphere commenting on his death at all, and almost no one comes out on either side of the question with any hard facts.

Here's the BBC on what comes next for Palestine.