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To: stockman_scott who wrote (29156)	5/10/2002 2:59:33 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Is Mr. Arafat disingenuous, as many argue, saying different things in different languages, with reasonable and peace-loving English rhetoric giving way to an intolerant and hate-filled vocabulary in Arabic? This seems unlikely Excuse me? Haven't Arafat's public statements all been, well, public? Isn't the consensus about the nature and worth of Mr. Arafat's statements in English and Arabic pretty well formed by all parties now? What nonsense is this -- "this seems unlikely"? In the New York Times, he suggested flexibility on the right of return. In Arabic, he made total right of return the number one issue, while calling for "a million martyrs to Jerusalem". I don't call that merely "likely", I call it a certain fact. is that he is expected to be a statesman without a state What do you call the PA? Has it no territory? Has it no people? What happened to the $2.5 billion dollars it received in aid since 1993? More excuses. 'Conditions weren't perfect, so of course he had no choice but to give his people 17 overlapping security services instead of decent housing'. I'll agree this far -- Arafat's successor does need a stake. But Arafat's successor needs to be a state-builder, not a state-destroyer like Arafat.