Looks like there's no mistake this time

Or so they say. Here are the international reactions:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1100147299806

Some think this could open the doors for a two-state solution again. I'm not so sure. Arafat was really the only person Palestinians as a group ever followed or listened to at all, and death tends to smooth over the bad in a leader in the collective national conciousness. Anyone more reasonable who tries to lead after him will be seen as second-best, possibly not even legitimate. The settler movement and its support in Israel is nothing to sneeze at either.

And while it seems the best solution, and probably the only non-catastrophic one in the end, right now I don't see how an independent Palestinian state could do anything other than sink deeper into economic depression and socio-cultural extremism. Not without some heavy long-term foreign aid and renovations. Even then, it's hard to imagine how a state that small could become economically viable.