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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4629)10/12/2001 6:43:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
That's what's so tragic when there are extremists on one side and moderates on the other... The extremists will always force the other side to lose their moderation and become extreme themselves.

Absolutely. And outsiders will only scold the moderates for becoming extremists in such a regressive way, while they will have become used to the other side being as extreme as always.

And this is just what Arafat accomplished by not negotiating in good faith with Peres and Barak.

Yes again. Listening to diplomats who have tried to deal with Arafat, I am continually reminded of a family whose dynamics have been warped around the behavior of a member who's a drunk. What does AA call it? co-dependence?

Yesterday I heard Dennis Ross say, "What I learned in dealing with Yasser Arafat is that he is not a decision-taker, but a decision-avoider, and you must set up circumstances so that he has no choice but to make a decision." Is this the normal language of diplomats? Can you think of a greater disaster for a people than to have a decision-avoider as their unremovable leader?

someone's going to have to knock both their heads together (especially Arafat's) and see some reason..

For reasons stated above, I am pessimistic. The Israelis are easier to pressure, and the whole world is used to accepting empty promises from Arafat. He is currently just panicked enough to attempt a show of controlling Hamas, but if the U.S. gives him a passing grade on the show, which they will, he will put off the evil day of his Altalena moment yet again, and nothing will have changed.
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