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

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (888)	12/1/2001 9:03:03 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 32591

I certainly believe that they do have control and influence and are causing it. My point, in the matter of foreign policy, is that it doesn't matter. We should stop wasting our time with the current leaders of the Palestinians. They cannot or will not effect change that is beneficial to both parties. If somebody else doesn't step forward that does have the power and influence to cause a peaceful solution, then the course of action is pretty clear.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (888)	12/1/2001 11:04:15 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

DEBKAfile’s terrorist sources, citing the latest intelligence assessment that all the Palestinian groups have begun operating in concert, note that Saturday night’s triple bombing in Jerusalem must have been planned, prepared and executed by a highly professional intelligence agency. The only Palestinian bodies that qualify are the security services run by Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority. The operation required at least half a dozen trained terror operatives to carry out the different functions: the two suicides, who had high explosives mixed with large nails and iron scrap strapped to their bodies; two or three operatives, who planted the booby-trapped car in a nearby side street. Immediately after the first two blasts, they detonated the car in time to trap the rescue teams and ambulances, before making their escape in a waiting getaway vehicle. A back-up team was also probably hanging about not far from the target scene to cover the escape if the need arose. Its members were also able to melt away. The Palestinian terror team’s entry, action and escape were precisely planned and executed. Last week, shortly after the US envoy, Anthony Zinni, arrived for his mission to broker a ceasefire, Israel, the United State and Jordan received advance intelligence of a plan laid by Arafat and his security chiefs to embark on a series of “strategic terrorist operations” to score a mass death toll of Israeli civilians - as DEBKAfile reported earlier. As to Arafat’s condemnation, he has never had any qualms about formally denouncing the terrorist actions he himself engineered. Neither is he bothered by being told explicitly by US secretary of state Colin Powell that neither he nor the President any longer believes anything that Arafat says. The Jordanian government, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources reveal, recently warned the Palestinian leader that any further major Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel would lead to the long-term closure of the Jordanian frontier to Palestinian passage. The question asked with increasing urgency in broad Israeli circles is this: If a little country like Jordan can stand up to Arafat and slap down a final warning, why can’t the Israeli government? And why was Israel not prepared for this latest terrorist outrage? Inside Sharon’s broad coalition government voices are multiplying for the Palestinian Authority to be proclaimed an enemy and war declared. By waiting for the US President to receive him, Sharon lost precious ground: He appeared to be procrastinating when he should have been moving into action at top speed. As things stand, before he and his defense cabinet get their act together, Arafat and his killers will strike again. The Palestinian leader may even find military backing from across Israel’s northern border.