From Mohammed Dahlan, until last month head of the Palestinian Authority’s security organisation in Gaza, a member of the Fatah leadership and an adviser to Yasser Arafat, and has been regarded as a possible successor to Arafat: “Far from setting out a vision of peace, President Bush’s plan for the Middle East points instead to an American decision to give up on the peace process. What has effectively been done is to transform a series of demands of the international community and international law into a series of demands to be made of Yasser Arafat. It also gives a new meaning to the word democracy, where our leaders are to be chosen by others.” Guardian UK [via Also Not Found… ]