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To: TigerPaw who wrote (3531)	4/2/2002 11:39:40 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

Kissinger and Zbignew Brzezinski, Carter's Secretary of State, were on The Jim Lehrer News Hour last night. We've have felt for a very long time that Sharon started his assault on Palestine and Arafat after 9/11. We were astonished to hear Brzezinski say the same so we don't feel so off base. I agreed very much with Brzezinski's position. Also, I saw Sharon on Sixty Minutes Sunday night. He made reference to Iran and Palestine which plays right into Bush' hands since W wants to attack Iraq. As you know both Iraq and Iran are on W's Axis of Evil list. I've copied an excerpt to the Lehrer article but I've given you a reference so you can read it. ----Mephisto THE NEXT STEP April 1, 2002 pbs.org Excerpt from The Jim Lehrer News Hours " Henry Kissinger and Zbignew Brzezinski discuss the continuing violence in Israel and the occupied territories, and the U.S. role in ending the crisis. Online Special: Israeli-Palestinian conflict (THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE INTERVIEW) ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: "Look, I think what's quite obvious particularly after 9/11 what Sharon's strategy has been. It's been to stigmatize Arafat as a total terrorist and to link his policy to the US struggle against terrorism. And what we're seeing now happen is essentially a confirmation of that strategy. I have no grief for Arafat. I've dealt with him. He's evasive; he's elusive. But the argument that he could stop terrorism and bring it to a halt and then go on from a prolonged procedural discussion into subsequent political discussions is sheer illusion or self-deception. The point is there has to be a political process concurrently with the efforts to contain the violence. That means the US stepping in, laying on the table proposals that point both parties to some definition of the settlement. MARGARET WARNER: So how would you get Sharon to accept that? ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: Certainly by not endorsing what he's doing or winking at it or acting in a way which contradictory, which is on the one hand in effect giving him the green light and on the other hand voting in the UN asking the Israeli troops to withdraw. That I think creates not only incoherence but in effect gives him the option to move forward and forward. And if he is then killed, Arafat, if he is killed in some encounter, he will become a martyr to the Arabs. And in the meantime, we can't ignore the fact that no one in the world -- no country in the world endorses what are doing or endorses what the Israelis are doing. Now that means that in some fashion either the whole world is seized with some total misunderstanding of the situation or that perhaps the course that is being pursued by Sharon with tacit American accommodation is not all that productive and is not all that desirable. " >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> TP, for those who may not know The United States voted at The United Nations FOR THE MOTION that Israel withdraw its troops from Palestinian land and Brzezinsk mentions that vote above. After that vote and on national tv from his Texas ranch, over Easter weekend, Bush blamed Arafat for all the problems. Mephisto