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To: D. Long who wrote (6688)	10/13/2001 1:02:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

I never suggested allowing the right of return TO ISRAEL Nadine No? The talks at Camp David and Taba broke down on just this demand. So if Israel unilaterally withdrew to the Green Line as you suggest, it's pretty obvious that, with such encouragement, this pre-existing demand would not go away, just the opposite in fact. Look, if Arafat was a reasonable man running something that looked like a state (instead of a Mafia extortion ring), there would be a Palestinian state right now. He's not. He is a dictator, and a weak and corrupt dictator to boot. Giving in to the demands of dictators is called "appeasement", and it has a 100% failure rate in making dictators into reasonable men. If the enemies of Israel would ever "hang themselves", as you put it, with their extremism, surely we would have seen some sign of it during that circus in Durban a couple of months ago. Who walked out? The US and Israel only. Same as always. The enemies of Israel are demanding the dissolution of Israel, some sotto voce, some loud and clear, and no penalty for this has appeared so far. If you believe that Israel's withdrawal to the Green Line would change this, apart from giving encouragement to Israel's enemies, could I talk you about a bridge you might want to buy? All I can say to you is that there are worse options that the status quo, and your suggestion is one of them. With the whole Arab world inflamed and screaming for war, Israel cannot afford to lose what remains of her deterrence. Nor can she try to prop up any longer an aging weak dictator whose regime will soon fall of its own accord. After Arafat dies, we will have to see who & what we are dealing with.