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To: JohnM who wrote (21565)	3/17/2002 2:54:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I read the article. I didn't post it because I thought it was less intelligent than Martin Indyck's. This "Sharon provoked the intifada" theory is nonsense, and does not deserve to be treated seriously. Sure, Sharon did his little grandstand. But one speech on the Temple Mount "caused" eighteen months of intifada? A speech is a casus belli? If Arafat hadn't been planning the intifada all along (we know that by that point he had already assembled the Tanzim militia), Sharon's speech would have caused a day's disturbance, no more. It was a convenient kick-off point for the already-planned intifada, which became a top-down military enterprise almost immediately. The PA communications minister confirmed it a few months later. As for Sharon's dark plan, let's remember back to September 2000. Sharon wasn't Prime Minister then. Barak was. And how did Sharon become Prime Minister? Because Arafat started a war. One could more plausibly say Arafat had a plan to elect Sharon. If he did, it worked splendidly.

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