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To: SirRealist who wrote (16843)	1/19/2002 8:29:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

You're suggesting he's putting personal political power above Israel's best interests? No, how did I imply that? Before taking such a decisive step, he feels he needs both public support and a stable unity government -- obviously it would be a disaster if the government fell apart at the moment he's trying to strike. Experience has made him cautious. If he strikes, he doesn't want Arafat rescued again. Not by Yossi Beilin, not by Shimon Peres, not by Xavier Solana, not by President Bush. And most of all, he has to be sure that it won't backfire and wind up with the imposition of Kosovo-style monitors. Debka, which is interesting tonight, said that the US came within a hair of freezing relations with the PA but backed off for unknown reasons. They also mentioned that Israel gave the US papers from the Karine A with Arafat's signature.