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To: SilentZ who wrote (143505)	3/25/2002 7:07:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583712

>Z, I find it hard to believe that Israeli intelligence did not know who Arafat was before handing over those weapons to him after the Oslo accord. Israel would not have given him one rifle if they thought he was in league with the terrorists. When they gave him the weapons, they expected the international community to hold Arafat to the agreement. They didn't expect that the world would force them to leave him in power if he broke it. Unfortunately, he's learned that he can get away with a lot. Z, my experience of the Israelis I have met and gotten to know is that they trust no one, including the international community, to protect them or to prevent trouble for them. Your comments below re Rabin confirm that level of distrust. Rabin was much more moderate than Sharon and he didn't trust Arafat enough to shake his hand. However, I think if they thought that Arafat was an out and out terrorist, they would not agree to provide him weapons, the world community, or the Oslo agreement be damned. Israel didn't trust him very much. Rabin is and will always be remembered as a pioneer of peace, but he didn't really support the Oslo accords, because he didn't trust Arafat. Did you watch the interview Shimon Peres did with Ashleigh Banfield a couple of months ago? He told her that Rabin in fact did not want to shake hands with Arafat on the White House lawn in '93, but Peres goaded him into it. I went to an Elie Wiesel lecture last fall- Wiesel was a good friend of Rabin's. Wiesel said that he had met with Rabin in a hotel two weeks before Rabin was assasinated in '95, and Rabin told him at that time that he thought that Arafat was part of the problem, not part of the solution. Israel did what they did because their hand was forced. May be so.....yet, I still feel they thought Arafat was not that bad. Very rarely have I seen Israel capitulate to world opinion when it runs against their interests and/or safety. ted