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To: goldsnow who wrote (9343)	11/30/2001 4:08:36 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Talking of putting the squeeze on Israelis.... Friday, November 30, 2001 Kislev 15, 5762 Israel Time: 11:07 (GMT+2) Be like Begin when you meet Bush By Yoel Marcus haaretz.co.il Excerpt: Sharon has set many records - in the size of the government he heads, in the number of persons killed in terror attacks, in the number of jobless in the country, and in the presently abysmal situation of tourism in Israel. Bush has flourished as his nation's leader and has proven himself a credible one, while the precise opposite has occurred in Sharon's case. The meeting between a president who is getting better every day and a prime minister whose stature is steadily diminishing will produce neither "chemistry" nor a "beautiful friendship" nor any mutual agreement capable of bringing peace to this region. American National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's beautiful legs, which Sharon so admired, have not changed, but Bush will be a different Bush altogether. Sharon will arrive in Washington as the hostage of his own simplistic view that the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is Palestinian terrorism: "You have to contend with terrorism and so do we, so then we obviously understand one another, right?" Sharon has done everything possible to assign to American envoy General (retired) Anthony Zinni's mission here the limited objective of attaining a cease-fire. In Sharon's view, the Washington administration has no real game plan and Zinni has come here for the purpose of "crisis management." "I see no strategic change in [Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser] Arafat nor do I see any change in the situation," said Benjamin Ben-Eliezer in a "closed session." "It is said of Zinni that he has an `Arab orientation,' that he is a tough guy with a hell of a lot of determination. However, he can't order us around. We are not an American colony." [...] ________________________ Indeed Israel is not an American colony --it's an American liability....