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To: slacker711 who wrote (71353)	2/4/2003 2:11:43 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) of 281500

If you believe this, can you explain the failure of the Clinton administration to get the deal done? It was definitely not from a lack of trying....a ME peace deal would have done wonders for Clinton's place in history. Slacker, none of us has any serious idea as to why that deal was not made. We've all floated one version or another back and forth here; read innumerable articles in The New York Review of Books, NYTimes, WP, WSJ, etc. I'm definitely not here to defend Arafat's skills in all this. Nor Clinton's. Nor Barak's. From what I read, the basic outlines of a deal has been there for some time. One of the things that keeps violence at very low levels is the prospects that negotiations can produce something close to those outlines. As hopes for negotiations fade, the incentives to violence increase. The only basis, given the current conditions, under which any prospects for negotiations can start again is if the Bush folk push both sides to do so. And right now Arafat is clearly not the only one in the way of such negotiations. Most likely he is less likely a problem than Sharon.

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