If we Israelis had had a leader like the Palestinian Authority's Yasser Arafat, the state of Israel would never have come into being. Why? Because the test of a leader does not lie in his being swept up in his people's dreams; it lies in his pragmatic ability to accept what can be achieved. It is better to realize part of the dream than nothing. And that can be accomplished only by a leader of great stature, with the strength to lead his people into the realms of reality and not succumb to the unrealistic wishes of the majority.