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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12662)	12/4/2001 11:25:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I know that sounds like quite a bizarre strategy, but I have a hard time believing that Peres would be content to have Arafat as head of a Palestinian state on the West Bank knowing how two faced he has been in these peace negotiations. I know...when the alternatives are eliminated, you are left with some strange conclusions. One must conclude that Peres still believes that the alternatives to Arafat -- chaos or Hamas -- are even worse. How he can believe that Arafat could ever be maneuvered into being a partner for anything passes belief.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12662)	12/4/2001 11:56:14 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

I've been wondering how much of the surge in terror last weekend was deliberate, and how much was chance. Remember, most suicide bombings are foiled before they are carried out, and most bombings that succeed only kill a couple of people. Killing fewer than five people now gets little attention, and the newspapers don't pay any attention to attempts any more. Just last week, the Shin Bet stopped an attempt by Hamas on the Israeli Defense Minister's life; this would have been a firestorm if it had succeeded, but the attempt didn't even make the American news channels. There was obviously an order to step up the bombings (with Arafat's full complicity, I'm sure). But I was wondering if Hamas just got too lucky for their own good last weekend.