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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (635)	11/26/2001 4:28:44 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

According to Ha'aretz commentator Akiva Eldar, "peace will not be 'Sharon's and Arafat's baby.'" As for the Americans, "in the best case, they will be able to manage the conflict, not resolve it," he adds. "The Palestinians' analysis is that the minimum requirement that Arafat needs, which is basically something between [Ehud Barak's offers of concessions in negotiations at] Camp David and Taba, is unacceptable to Sharon. I would say that the Palestinians are right about this. Sharon was elected, as Clinton said, when the Israelis decided to "hunker down and go for defense" because of the intifada. Nobody in Israel (Yossi Beilin excepted) is going to be nuts enough again to offer the same deal to Yasser Arafat after he ran away from the table last time without so much as a counteroffer -- just a terrorist campaign. To ever reach negotiations again, not only do you need a cease-fire, you need a change in management on both sides. There is an established procedure for doing this on the Israeli side -- it's called an election. But on the Palestinian side, I fear it's called death, followed by civil war. It must be the most frustrating job in the world to be one of Arafat's lieutenants. He manipulates everybody so that only he can ever make a decision -- and then he never does.