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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (17075)	6/4/2001 7:09:29 PM
From: Frederick Langford	Respond to of 30051

The Egyptians see the conditions in which the Palestinians are living, and object to peace with Israel Odd, since Egypt surely won't them in.... Fred

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (17075)	6/4/2001 11:52:54 PM
From: ajs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30051

The author of that op-ed is part of a small leftist fringe group that still think as long as we give into whatever Arafat wants, there will be peace. Most of the left in Israel and here don't believe these words anymore. Here is a news article about the founder of Americans for Peace Now that says otherwise: zoa.org Founder Of Americans For Peace Now: We Shouldn't Have Ignored Arafat's Violations April 12, 2001 NEW YORK - Leonard Fein, the founder of Americans for Peace Now and a leader of Reform Judaism, has publicly acknowledged that he and his colleagues were "mistaken to close our eyes to the persistent Palestinian violations of the Oslo accords." Writing in The Forward on March 16, 2001, Fein declares: "It is time for reflection on where we who so enthusiastically advocated for Oslo were mistaken...Our mistake was to allow ourselves to be so carried away by the prospect of peace that we chose to close our eyes to the persistent Palestinian violations of the Oslo accords--and to what those violations implied about Palestinian intentions." Fein, who once wrote that then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "evil," now acknowledges that "Netanyahu was, it turns out, correct to call for reciprocity." Fein notes that even if the call for reciprocity had come from "an Oslo enthusiast" rather than Netanyahu, "we of the left even so would have chosen to turn a blind eye toward Palestinian violations, so desperately did we want to believe the peace was at hand." Fein, who previously wrote on many occasions that Arafat sincerely wanted to live in peace with Israel, now writes: "Whether Mr. Arafat ever was sincere in his endorsement of peace remains an open question. That in the end he has proved either stupid, evil or both scarcely can be thought debatable."