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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (13468)	4/9/2002 12:24:08 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: What happened last week, though it did not get a fraction of the attention it deserved, will be considered a central event and will be discussed by historians for many years to come. Some of the highest ranking eurocrats went to Israel, not in search of a truce or a peace agreement, not to talk to the country's elected government, but expressly to take sides in a war, and to try and save their protegé, Yasser Arafat. And they were immediately sent home. What a load of CRAP.... Frankly, your Jewish rent-a-pundit doesn't have a clue. The fact of the matter was that, before departing for Israel, the European delegates perfectly knew that they'd be barred from meeting with Arafat... After all, remember that that's why Spain PM Jose Maria Aznar didn't come along in the first place!! Then our smart aleck goes on to say that the Europeans didn't intend to meet (elected) Israeli officials?! What's that garbage?? Everybody watched on TV the backslapping party between Solana, Josep Picque, Perez, etc. Now, if you ask me WHY our brave Eurodelegates shifted all of a sudden, I'd say it's because they didn't anticipate that what they had been denied (an Arafat meeting) would be granted to a US LOW-LEVEL, SECOND-FIDDLE envoy by the name of Anthony Zinni!!! That was a diplomatic offense indeed... Can you imagine the same incident the other way around? Like US Veep Cheney being denied to meet with somebody... only to find out that some "obscure" diplomatic underling from Europe will be allowed to do it instead??? Anyway, all in all, it's just another foul-up by the Euros --they should never have gone to Israel in the first place! But then, it confirms my own geopolitical prediction: Europe's growing irrelevance for the Arab/Muslim world and the impending, dramatic geopolitical realignment between Europe, Israel, Russia, the US, and the Arab world.... Gus