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To: Ilaine who wrote (20227)	2/28/2002 4:36:32 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I hope the Saudi Ambassador to the UN was playing a version of "good cop, bad cop" in his speech. Just floating Crown Prince Abdullah's proposal at the UN seems to have been a new step, no? So discount the rest of it as rhetoric. It was just the same old same old, with this one idea thrown in, and not particularly new at that. King Fahd tried it out in 1981; the Saudis needed a charm offensive back then too. For the Saudis to signal that they meant something new, they would have to change their tone. I'm sick of being told to discount accusations of 'massacres', 'expulsions' and 'genocide' as rhetoric (& I'm sure the Israelis are more so). One of these days the Israelis will figure out that they have nothing to lose and much to gain by doing just a few of things they are routinely accused of. I liked tb's friend's suggestion that Israel tack both left and right. Watch what they do, not what they say. Let's do that. But there will be nothing to see.