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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LLLefty who wrote (21613)3/17/2002 10:40:29 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I agree with you regarding Peres; Labor now has the power to force new elections, but it's a suicide veto for Peres and Ben Eliezer. For Sharon too; Likud now prefers Bibi, who will come in if the unity government falls. At least Israel would be able to deliver its message coherently in New York and Washington.

I have no confidence in Powell. All I see from him is State Dept "evenhandedness" even though everybody knows that Arafat is a terrorist and a liar and is responsible for the current situation. Yet they refuse to cut Arafat off, the one option (short of killing him) that might change his course. So we keep playing the "Arafat must do more to stop terror" game. Nauseating.

Would be refreshing if we had a quiet stand-off for a few weeks.

Won't happen. Why the heck should Arafat quit while he's winning? Appeasing terrorism gets you more terrorism. Why does everybody keep hoping this rule will go away?

What I want to know is, how does Arafat prevent any of his lieutenants from being ambitious enough to kill him? The Israelis must be willing to offer the moon to any man who would do so. He must have very good spy networks, aside from dividing power into so many hands that no one man becomes too powerful.
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