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To: FaultLine who wrote (28788)	5/7/2002 7:03:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Question: If the Agha/Malley plan, or something like it, could work, would you throw your weight into it? I don't know what you mean by the "Agha/Malley plan or something like it". Are you talking about its proposed final borders, or about the process of imposing a plan on the parties? I do not support trying to impose any plan on the two parties. That won't work, and the peacekeepers will be human shields or combatants within the week. If you are talking about the shape of the compromises on borders, refugees, etc, it's one of many reasonable diplomatic plans, no shortage of the supply there. It's the parties who could sign such an agreement that are missing. I firmly believe that there will be no peace agreement as long as Arafat and Hamas and Islamic Jihad are running loose. Once they are decisively defeated -- not another survival portrayed as victory -- the next leader of the PA may decide to be more pragmatic, though history is not encouraging here. At this point, Israel should give more than it has to and offer something like the Taba deal -- but backed with a defensive wall. There must also be Israeli, US and Palestinian insistence on the creation of a Palestinian democracy, so that the long-suffering majority of the Palestinians have some way to say, enough, already. The Arab world will wail and seethe about its terrible humiliation, but they will do that in any case. The US must firmly tell them that it will take all efforts to undermine the deal in Palestine very personally.