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To: Thomas M. who wrote (12796)	3/18/2002 10:08:58 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 23908

Tom. You said..." But since you asked, my take on this is that the Americans want to make sure the Palestinians know that we don't care about them. We want to remind them that we are only proposing to help them to gain some support in the Mid East for our current and future actions.".... So If the Americans only want to appear to be helping the palestinians to gain support in the area for future action why in the world would they insult arafat, I don't think they will get a lot of support like that. I sometimes think that no one has any plans in that area. lorne

To: Thomas M. who wrote (12796)	3/18/2002 10:11:30 PM
From: ajs	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

US urges Saudis, other Arabs to halt anti-Jewish incitement in media The United States called on Saudi Arabia and other Arab governments to stop media reports that incite hatred of Jews, urging them to act in the interest of Israeli-Palestinian peace. Washington said Arab leaders should do more for the ailing peace process than back Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz's proposal which envisions Arab recognition for Israel in exchange for full Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands occupied in the 1967 Middle East War. In an official US government editorial that began airing Monday on the Voice of America (VOA), the United States said the crown prince's idea called "attention to the need to do everything possible to help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." "In the meantime, there is something that Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries, could do right now to ease tensions in the Middle East," the editorial said. "They could stop newspapers and radio and television stations, especially those controlled by the state, from inciting hatred and violence against Jews." The editorial said the message was sparked by a March 10 column in Saudi Arabia's Al-Riyadh newspaper in which the author repeated the long-disproved theory that Jews use the blood of Christians and Muslims in pastries they prepare for religious holidays. "This is, of course, the infamous 'blood libel', a centuries-old anti-Semitic lie that has been used repeatedly to stir hatred against Jews," the editorial said, calling the columnist's accusations "preposterous." "No one who is not blinded by hate for Jews could ever believe such nonsense," it said, adding that identifying the author as a doctor from a prominent Saudi university "helps to make her lies sound credible." "Surely, this is not the way to promote peace between Arabs and Jews." sg.news.yahoo.com

To: Thomas M. who wrote (12796)	3/19/2002 4:11:15 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: ...my take on this is that the Americans want to make sure the Palestinians know that we don't care about them. We want to remind them that we are only proposing to help them to gain some support in the Mid East for our current and future actions. C'mon, Thomas! Have you totally forgotten Sharon's dud trip to Washington in February?? Not only he failed to win Bush over to "terminate" Arafat but NSA C. Rice publicly challenged Israel's house-arrest of Arafat, calling it counterproductive... Moreover, as reported in the Jerusalem Post, one item on Sharon's agenda concerned that $800 million dough Israel's been longing for since 1999... If I remember right, such a mundane issue was assigned to Ben Eliezer (Fuad). Again, not only Sharon and his delegation didn't squeeze a penny out of their visit but President Bush solemnly announced his decision to grant Palestinian NGOs a hefty $300 million --talk about an anticlimax <g> As for the latest developments in the ME, the Saudi "recognition-for-land" initiative was a masterstroke to snooker IRAN. Indeed, as the Karin A affair demonstrated, Iran was poised to take over the Palestinian cause... As I pointed out, such a situation would have turned Iran into a powerful broker with a hand in both Palestine/Lebanon AND Afghanistan. Actually, an Iranian comeback on the Palestinian frontstage can't be ruled out yet: if the Saudi-Egyptian initiative falls through then Iran'll barge back into the process... Of course, such an ominous outcome would toll Cheney's diplomatic death. Gus