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To: E. T. who wrote (22783)	3/31/2002 11:25:04 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, is the following true, that there are 34 new settlements since Sharon came to power? Not exactly, ET. Peace Now is reporting 34 new "settlement points", which mean that an existing settlement put up a new building or two. Of course, it gets reported everywhere as "new settlements".

To: E. T. who wrote (22783)	3/31/2002 1:51:43 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 281500

E.T., I don't know the accuracy of the facts you cite, but one thing is clear, the longer Arafat wait to create his state, the smaller the foot print will be. Sharon probably is trying to let Arafat know that time is not on his side. He is trying to tell him that terror will be met by additional cutting down of his "eventual state". Right now Arafat is working under the assumption that he has nothing to lose from the offer Barak gave him. Sharon is probably telling him (both orally through his contacts and in the field through these additional settlements), "You killed the Barak deal, tough luck, any new deal will take into account what you have done in the last 18 months. The lesson should be, the sooner you settle the better off you are, time is not on the side of the Palestinians, if they wait too long, they'll end up with their national aspiration dumped in the pile of historical "non-nation states" that litter the historical pages. Terrorism will not pay. If it is allowed to pay here, it will plunge the world in chaos, not Just Israel and the Palestinians. If Sharon was doing anything else, the message would have been "Arafat, your terror is working". It is one of those rare cases where I completely Agree with Sharon. Having been raised as a "Dove" in the "Israeli/Palestinian" conflict, I presume that my "change of mind" reflects the defection of many from the "Peace camp", it is quite possible that Arafat's last 18 months of terror have reduced the Israeli Peace camp to a minority. Zeev Zeev