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To: lorne who wrote (12778)	3/18/2002 5:01:36 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

The net has been cast-if Arafat "fails" this time I believe Sharon would have carte-blansh (or Say American Express <g> to buy him one way ticket to the Martyrdom or perhaps Hotel in Tunisia... reuters.com

To: lorne who wrote (12778)	3/19/2002 5:13:35 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Check again.... Tuesday, March 19, 2002 Nisan 6, 5762 Cheney: I am ready to meet Arafat once Tenet is implemented By Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz Correspondent and The Associated Press U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney said Tuesday he would be prepared to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat once the implementation of the Tenet truce plan had begun. Cheney, who made his comments at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, said that if the Tenet plan was being implemented, a meeting between himself and Arafat could take place "rather soon," although he added that no date or locale had been set. The vice president said that special envoy Anthony Zinni would be passing on this message to Arafat in the course of Tuesday. Sharon said he would allow Arafat to travel outside the West Bank and Gaza Strip once the Tenet plan went into effect. "I have told the vice president that implementation of Tenet will enable Mr. Arafat to go out" of the territories. Arafat's exit, Sharon added, "is conditional on the implementation of the Tenet decisions." Asked whether he would allow Arafat to return to Palestinian-controlled areas if he attended the Arab summit in Beirut at the end of the month, Sharon said that if the Palestinian leader made inciteful speeches at the summit or if there were terror attacks in his absence, then he would "not rule out any possibility." Cheney reiterated U.S. support for a two-state solution to the conflict, saying that Israelis and Palestinians should be able to live alongside one another in "secure boundaries," and that he believed "that visions can be achieved." Earlier Tuesday, a senior U.S. official said that Cheney had decided not to hold a meeting with Arafat. U.S. officials were quoted as saying that both the daunting logistics of a Cheney-Arafat meeting and the fact that the vice president did not want to be perceived as a mediator in the process, were behind the decision. The officials also said that such a meeting was unlikely to advance a cease-fire. Cheney, on a 24-hour visit to Israel, met Sharon for a second discussion, on Tuesday morning. Cheney had left time in his schedule for a meeting with senior Palestinian officials, but peeved PA leaders said they would not meet the vice president if he refused to meet Arafat. The speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Abu Ala (Ahmed Qureia) told the Qatari-based Al Jazeera television station that if Cheney chose not to meet Arafat, then he and other senior PA officials would refuse to meet the vice president. [snip] haaretz.co.il Actually, I'm impressed by the Bush team's diplomatic mastery... They've craftily cornered Sharon into mending relations with Arafat. Powell played the pro-Arab guy, Cheney played the pro-Israeli one but, all in all, they're in cahoots with each other and will eventually pull it off --so far so good. Gus