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To: LindyBill who wrote (1969)11/3/2002 1:12:07 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 6901
 
Hi, LB. Yossi Beilin is like the Bourbons. He forgets nothing and he learns nothing.

Naturally he is rah-rah'ing Labor's proud and pure march into perpetual opposition. You have to give Beilin this much, he is open about what he recommends: negotiation with terrorists, then when that proves fruitless (as of course it will; would you concede anything of value to someone who had already announced his intention to withdraw?), unilateral withdrawal in the face of terrorists.

That this grand victory would only encourage Arafat and his supporters to prepare the next stage in the Plan of Phases need hardly be explained to most observers; but as David Warren remarked the other day, the Left seems perpetually unable to connect cause and effect.

The good news is that the Israeli public seems to have quite a good grip on cause and effect, and it shows in the low numbers that Labor and Meretz are polling. The Israeli public was glad to have Labor in the government merely to act as a brake on the wilder schemes of the Right, but if Labor choses to remove itself (over what even Beilin calls a pretext; only the NY Editorial page remains in doubt on that score), I would say they can live with it, so long as Sharon reassures them that he won't be held hostage by the smaller parties of the right, which he is doing. The policies that Sharon is pursuing have broad public support, according to the polls I have seen.
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