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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (52166)10/15/2002 12:57:03 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
And the unanswered question, even if the NYR versions to which you refer are true, is why there were no further negotiations. Just an abrupt volte face on Arafat's part. Left the table without a response. Is that a mark of good faith?

Excellent point. And neither of us really knows the answer. The Palestinians now say they wished to continue to negotiate, that they made a mistake by not getting back to the table soon enough. I genuinely don't know whether that's true or not. Nor do you.

What I object to is the notion that therefore it must mean that all Palestinians simply wish to push Israel off the map.

The last time I saw Clinton argue on this one, he agreed that the offer from Barak was a good one, that the Palestinians made a huge mistake not to take it, but that the failure to take it was not evidence that they wished to drive the Israelis into the sea.
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