Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (12437)	12/2/2001 10:17:00 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

actually, he's saying that Arafat's running a unity government with the younger nationalist radicals, who--according to Shikaki at least, cause I have my doubts--do ultimately want a two-state solution. He claims the old guard and young guard in the nationalist camp differ more on means than ends--whereas the young guard and the Islamists differ more on ends than means. The basic reason he would give for cutting a deal with Arafat, in the end, is that the alternatives are even worse. tb@andhemightberight.com PS for those who might like to discredit Shikaki's analysis, btw, here's an interesting--if ultimately not all that relevant--tidbit: his brother is the head (or ex-head, can't remember) of Palestine Islamic Jihad...