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To: LLLefty who wrote (22773)	3/31/2002 1:46:02 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If the Saudi proposal is to have legs, it is incumbent upon the Crown Prince to underscore it as a serious move by putting pressure upon the one party over which Saudi Arabia has considerable influence. In other words, if it anything more than a charm offensive to mollify the US, The Saudis should follow up with pressure on Arafat to significantly lower the level of violence. Not to mention pressure on Hamas, of whom the Saudis are the chief funders. Also, as a gesture of goodwill, they might give up printing blood libels and Nazi forgeries of the supposed anti-Semitic opinions of the American Founding Fathers, just for a while at least. Of course, they haven't done any of this. They also demanded Right of Return, just to make sure their proposal was unacceptable to Israel. In any event, the Saudis created for themselves an opportunity to break free from their narrow world of pre-modernism under new leadership. It's a longshot. It's an oil slick.