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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (250464)	4/24/2002 10:11:14 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Zbigniew Brzezinski exposes Sharon's deceptions II Part 2 Gardels: This political process should go forward even as suicide bombings take place? Brzezinski: If we don't do that, then we make any so-called cease-fire a hostage to any act of terrorism. It's absolute hypocrisy claim that Arafat can put a stop to all terrorism. To put it mildly, it is poor information on the part of President Bush to insist on that. Arafat is cut off. Sharon is repressing the Palestinians. Yet terrorism is not stopping. How is Arafat supposed to put a stop to it? Yes, he probably has been evasive. He probably has been winking. His ability to control the situation would be greatly increased if there was serious movement toward political process in which the United States took the lead. Gardels: In U.S. eyes, should there still be a role for Arafat? Brzezinski: What's quite obvious is that Sharon's strategy since September 11 has been to stigmatize Arafat as a terrorist and link him to the U.S. struggle against terrorism. I have no grief for Arafat. I've dealt with him. He's evasive; he's elusive. But the argument that he could stop terrorism and bring it to a halt and then go on from a prolonged procedural discussion into subsequent political discussions is sheer self-deception. The point is there has to be a political process concurrently with the efforts to contain the violence. That means the U.S. stepping in, laying on the table proposals that point both parties to some outline of a final settlement. Gardels: How would you get Sharon to accept that? Brzezinski: Certainly by not endorsing what he's doing or winking at it or acting in a way which is contradictory -- on the one hand giving him the green light and on the other hand voting in the U.N., asking the Israeli troops to withdraw from Ramallah. That incoherence, in effect, gives Sharon the option to keep moving forward. And if Arafat is killed in some encounter, he will become a martyr to the Arabs. Gardels: Is the U.S. isolating itself by not opposing Sharon? Brzezinski: We can't ignore the fact that no country in the world endorses what we are doing or endorses what the Israelis are doing. That means that in some fashion either the whole world is seized with some total misunderstanding of the situation or that the course that is being pursued by Sharon with tacit American accommodation is not productive or conducive to peace.

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