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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (12788)	3/18/2002 7:21:22 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

Nadine, the conventional wisdom that USA protect Israel..In fact USA protects Arabs from first totally disintegrating...The biggest Influence is the USA assurances that USA would not allow Israel to vanquish Palestinias....And that is true...Another War in the Middle East would completely destabilise the region with regimes like Mubarak's likely to fall...However, Arafat is surely expendable and can be easily turned into Saddam like figure...I believe that Arafat would be send packing soon..

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (12788)	3/18/2002 9:06:52 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

In Venezuela, American energy companies have invested billions of dollars to pull up once-worthless, nearly solid crude oil and turn it into gasoline and jet fuel. In Canada's northern Alberta province, US and Canadian companies are drawing new oil from gravel-like "tar sands". And in Russia, Soviet-era oil-production facilities have sprung back to life after years of neglect. The upshot is that the US and the rest of the industrialised world are quietly growing less dependent on Middle Eastern oil. afr.com Dependence on Middle East oil for decades has been a central concern of US diplomacy, national-security policy and domestic politics. In the wake of September 11 and US President George Bush's declaration of war on terrorism - much of which emanates from the Middle East - the danger of disruption of Persian Gulf supplies has risen. But politics and national security have not driven the little-noticed reduction in reliance on the Middle East. In the short term, decreased dependence means that President Bush can consider limited military action against Iraq without serious worries of panicking oil markets or severely boosting prices at US gas pumps.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (12788)	3/18/2002 11:41:05 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 23908

Nadine, Goldsnow, Lorne, you are really getting good here and the picture gets clearer, which is of prime importance for us all, after all.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (12788)	3/19/2002 7:54:51 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Net is getting tighter <g> washingtonpost.com Vice President Cheney said today he would be willing to return to the Middle East as early as next week to meet PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat if the Palestinian leader satisfies several conditions for calming the current turmoil, including declaring publicly that violence must end and ordering his security forces to enforce a cease-fire. "I cannot emphasize enough how important it will be this week for Chairman Arafat to take the steps to get the cease-fire started and to start implementation of the Tenet work plan, namely to speak to his people, personally, about the importance of ending violence and terrorism, to issue clear instructions to his security services of enforce the cease-fire and to follow up closely these efforts to ensure implementation of the Tenet work plan," Cheney said at a joint press conference with the Israeli prime minister. On the Palestinian side, the Tenet plan calls for Arafat's security forces to enforce order and collect weapons from militants. Israel at the same time is required to pull back military forces to positions when the Palestinian uprising first erupted 18 months ago.