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To: TimF who wrote (2753)	8/14/2001 10:45:52 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 23908

Symbolic Mideast Tactics Underscore Growing Divide By CLYDE HABERMAN nytimes.com

To: TimF who wrote (2753)	8/14/2001 11:23:38 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 23908

If he can't control the violence then what is negotiating with him supposed to achieve? Good question. The Israeli assessment is that he can control the violence. It's always hard to tell with Arafat since he's a past master at deniability and having a bunch of loosely connected organizations, so that he can give orders for a cease-fire, but then claim he has no control over the organizations who are breaking the cease-fire. This is how he's taught everybody not to ever expect him to keep his commitments. It's an old game with Arafat. Actually, Prof. Sayigh doesn't say that Arafat can't control the violence, if you read carefully. He says that Arafat chose not to, preferring to use the crisis to "escape by running ahead". I think that what Prof. Sayigh says about Arafat is far more damning than anything that Sharon has ever said about him. What worse thing can you say about a leader than he got you into a war without a strategy or an end goal?