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To: Ilaine who wrote (23823)	4/7/2002 9:26:57 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

You could look at it that way, that Bush is just playing a duplicitous game, or you could try to figure out, as I have, what facts would make Bush's acts consistent. What makes sense to me is that Israel is going too far. What Bush is saying is on its face is a little peculiar, cb. He says that a) Israel has a right to defend itself against terror, b) Arafat has not acted against terror, c) Israel has gone too far. How? After a week? because they went into the cities of the West Bank? should they have fought the terrorists only from afar? How much good would that have done? Are there any measures that could have been in any part effective, without being 'too far'? Bush's three propositions don't quite add up, unless you add in a Bush determination to get the Arabs to hold Arafat back, while he holds Israel back. Part of getting the Arabs to hold Arafat back is permitting the Israelis to put a genuine "or else" on the table, a hard knock that stops short of sparking a regional war. The Arabs certainly have not been listening to us up until now.

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