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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (48998)	10/22/2000 8:53:23 PM
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GE looks terrible but I don't know how the HON deal interferes with that. Perhaps the reason doesn't matter after all. Fresh from ME: ---------------- Arafat to Barak: Go to hell Barak said his government would take a time-out from peacemaking with the Palestinians after the emergency Arab summit October 22, 2000, 06:13 PM OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat angrily rejected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s declaration of a time out from the peace process on Sunday, telling reporters that Barak could "go to hell". "My response is that our people are continuing on the road to Jerusalem, capital of the independent Palestinian state, whether (Barak) accepts or does not accept, let him go to hell." Barak said his government would take a time-out from peacemaking with the Palestinians after an emergency Arab summit used what he called threatening language against Israel. "Israel totally rejects the language of threats that came out of the summit and condemns the call, folded into the decisions, for continued violence," Barak told reporters. In an official statement, Barak was quoted as saying at the weekly cabinet meeting that in light of the summit’s results, "we will have to take a time-out whose purpose is to reassess the peace process in response to the events of recent weeks". Four Palestinians, including a 14-year-old, were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday, bringing the number of dead in three weeks of bloodshed to 125, all but eight of them Arabs. Arab leaders wrapped up a rare summit in Cairo by calling for a war crimes tribunal to investigate Israel`s handling of the unrest. Accusing Israel of massacring Palestinians, the summit said: "Arab states will prosecute according to international law those who caused these barbaric practices and demand that the Security Council form a special international criminal court to try Israeli war criminals." But the two-day summit stopped short of calling on Egypt and Jordan, which both have peace treaties with Israel, from cutting ties with the Jewish state. Addressing his cabinet, Barak did not say when the Israeli time-out from an already shattered peace process would begin. On Friday, Barak gave Arafat until the end of the Arab summit to implement understandings brokered by the United States at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt on Tuesday calling for both leaders to quash the violence. Asked to respond to Barak`s call for a time-out, Arafat told reporters on his return from the summit to Gaza: "I expected this from him. It’s not the first time he’s said something like this." Arafat said the Palestinian people were "continuing the road to Jerusalem", which they claim as the capital of a future state. "To accept it, or not to accept it -- let him go to hell," he said, without mentioning Barak by name. Barak calls of Palestinians to halt uprising Barak`s office quoted him as telling cabinet ministers on Sunday he was going ahead with the time-out because Arafat was doing nothing to end violent protests and prevent Palestinian gunmen from firing at Israeli troops. "We call on the Palestinians to respect their commitments and to halt the violence and incitement," Barak later told reporters. "We will continue to view peace...as the eventual goal -- but not a peace that is achieved at any price while surrendering to violence," Barak said. He told the cabinet Arafat was purposely fanning the violence to shore up international support for the unilateral establishment of a Palestinian state as early as November 15. Arafat found lacklustre support for any unilateral declaration of a state during a global tour after his Camp David peace summit with Barak ended in disagreement in July. Israeli spokesman Nachman Shai said Israel would reject any international involvement in peacemaking or in resolving the crisis. Shai acknowledged to reporters that taking a time-out from already deadlocked peace talks would help the politically weak Barak woo right-wing opposition leader Ariel Sharon into his cabinet to form a national emergency government. Sharon, a 72-year-old army general who leads the right-wing Likud party, opposes the peace process and is reviled by Palestinians for allowing a massacre of Palestinians by Israel’s Lebanese Christian allies during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Palestinians say Sharon’s visit to a Jerusalem shrine holy to Muslims and Jews sparked the clashes which Palestinians call the Al-Aqsa Intifada (uprising). They accuse him of defiling the shrine. arabia.com , Reuters and AFP contributed to this report Arabia on Line © 2000 all rights reserved