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To: goldsnow who wrote (6996)	10/16/2001 9:16:28 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 23908

Thomas is sniffing around for a way to blame Bush.

To: goldsnow who wrote (6996)	10/16/2001 9:17:33 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

So the letters were delivered promptly, just not opened until a while later? That would explain the delay. Tom

To: goldsnow who wrote (6996)	10/17/2001 5:33:48 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

TOLD YOU SO...... Message 16198293 Message 16325039 US foreign policy shift destabilises Israeli government By Chris Marsden 17 October 2001 This week’s visit to London by Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat is the latest manifestation of a US-led drive to renew efforts to secure a negotiated settlement in the Middle East in order to maintain Arab support for Washington’s war against Afghanistan. To do so the Bush administration has carried out a political volte-face that has strained its previously supportive relations with Israel to breaking point. Indeed the very survival of Ariel Sharon’s Likud-Labour coalition government has been placed in question. There are many factors that have brought the US into conflict with the right-wing forces grouped around Sharon. The Likud leader had thought that the US response to the September 11 attacks would dovetail with his own efforts to deal with the Palestinians militarily, proclaiming the suppression of the intifada to be the frontline of the international war against terrorism. The basis of Sharon’s calculations can be summarised as follows: a Republican administration with a powerful right wing lobby, which had been sharply critical of the efforts of the Clinton presidency to secure a Middle East settlement and had indicated its desire to utilise September 11 as a pretext to resume US efforts to bring down Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime in Iraq, must look with favour on his own efforts to bury the 1993 Oslo Accords and establish some form of Greater Israel. [snip] wsws.org