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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (24002)	4/8/2002 9:47:26 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Are you assuming that Sharon's assessment of Arafat is incorrect? or do you still believe this even if Arafat is a terrorist who is only interested in destroying Israel? That's not part of my thinking. Even if Sharon is correct about Arafat, and I have no way, of course, of knowing, nor have I seen anything here that settles that question, particularly given the rubbery character of the term "terrorist", but even if Sharon is correct I still think the course is the wrong one. Some of the consequences of Sharon's policies are to increase Arafat's legitimacy, to rally the Palestinians behind him, for that matter, to rally the Arab population behind him (as King Abdullah of Jordan said to Dan Rather tonight, to convert him from a hero to a saint), and to make it infinitely harder for any subsequent Palestinian leadership to compromise with the Israelis. It's one of the classic points at which a focus on the short term uses of force produce a long term which is the opposite of the desired.

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