I Don't Know Which Part to Object to First

The SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE listed its top 10 news stories of the year. Here is number 7.

7. Palestinians overwhelmingly elected moderate Mahmoud Abbas to replace Palestinian Authority President Yassar Arafat, an iconic leader who died in 2004. Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed to a truce between the bitter opposing sides, which held for most of the year, leading Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip it had occupied since 1967.

Ok let us start with the most obvious part. The plan to pull out of Gaza was put forward before the terrorist, Arafat died. Abbas, is hardly a mdoerate. The author of "The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism" which was a Holocaust denial. He was responsible for the fianancing of the Munich Massacre. Israel did occupy that land for that amount of time but only after offering to returning it to Eygpt who it had annexed it from, after Eygpt had forced Israels hand into war.