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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (41366)9/1/2002 1:00:33 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Second, turning point. Peres has said that the big mistake with the Oslo agreements was not going straight to a Palestinian state. Either turning point would either have made Arafat a different politician with a different agenda or have put forward different leadership.

Let me see if I get this reasoning straight. Giving Arafat legitimacy, land, an army (called a 'police force'), and full statehood on the installmant plan, demanding good behavior and keeping the peace in exchange, that was the big mistake. We should have given him an army, a state, full sovereignty, and legitimacy all at once in exchange for nothing but Arafat's promise of good behavior. That would have turned him from a terrorist and a mob boss into a democrat and a responsible ruler.

UFB. Just UFB.
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