Snooks, I'm not saying now is the time to overlook the past or that Yasser's past should be overlooked BUT in the end white South Africa overlooked Mandela's acts of terrorism and he turned out to be one of the greatest men of the 20th Century - he can stand proudly next to Churchill.
Secondly there is Gerry Adams, well known IRA terrorist hiding behind the cloak of a political party. The Brits held off taking him out and the result is a negotiated improvement in the peaceful status of Northern Ireland with many lives saved.
Sometimes it pays for elephants to erase memories.
