ted his life to the cause, a cause which required the Palestinians to change the way the world was managed if they were ever to get even a small measure of justice (47).
Hart stresses that the terrorist activity undertaken by Arafat was a practical necessity because of the isolation of the Palestinians even from Arab nations and leaders which purported to support the Palestinian cause:
In the context of the Palestinian struggle for at least a measure of justice, the significance of the impotence of the Arab regimes . . . cannot be exaggerated. It meant that the Palestinians were totally alone in their struggle. Because of their impotence the Arab regimes became . . . more the allies of the Western powers and Israel than reliable supporters of the Palestinian cause. It was . . . Arab regimes and not Is
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