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To: Neeka who wrote (6089)	10/18/2001 11:13:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Is there a moderate, progressive Palestinian leader out there, ready to take the lead, who's lead will be followed, if Arafat is gone? Not that I have heard of. Mind you, the Palestinians have a long, nasty history of declaring their moderates "traitors" and "collaborators" and shooting them. This tradition was started long before Arafat by the Mufti of Jerusalem. Mr. Nusseibeh, who just replaced the late Faisal Husseini in Jerusalem, gave a moderate speech in Jerusalem a couple of days ago (basically saying one Palestinian state and one Israeli state are going to have to live side by side), but since it was to Israelis I don't give it much weight. The Palestinians, especially under Arafat, have a long history of sounding moderate in English or Hebrew, and radical in Arabic. The worst thing of all is that I still believe that most Palestinians just want the Israelis out of their faces and to make a living. But their own leaders have always been a disaster for them.