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To: JohnM who wrote (19964)	2/25/2002 2:15:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I gather you are saying you don't know just what their views are In the absence of polls, there is only scattered information. I have seen opinions from different areas of the political spectrum, not just the right, that growing dissatisfaction with PA rule was one of the factors that prompted Arafat to start the 'intifada'; only by pointing the guns at the Israelis could he be sure that they wouldn't be pointed at himself. One of the more interesting and informed pieces that I read was Prof. Yezid Sayigh's Arafat and the Anatomy of a Revolution, which was printed in IISS Survivor and Ha'aretz. Did you ever read it? Interesting comment today during Ari Fleischer's press conference that the Bushies still consider the Mitchell plan as the first step toward a settlement. I didn't hear this, but I'm not surprised, since this has been the Bush administration position all along. Step one of the Mitchell plan is still a cease-fire.