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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: zeta1961 who wrote (36219)3/23/2004 1:07:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793955
 
...it was his defiant visit to Palestine's holy site 4 years ago that spurned the current intifada...at the sometimes not so evident cost to Israel and Palestinian and world

Zeta, by the time Sharon strolled onto the Temple Mount, Arafat had been paying the Tanzim militia for three months already...he was just waiting for an opportune moment to call for "Days of Rage" and start the intifada. Sharon gave him one, if it had not been that one, it would have been something else, and soon. The Palestinians were at the edge of rising up against Arafat, he had to keep the guns pointed at the Israelis.
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