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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (15787)	5/20/2002 9:56:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Very soon Sharon will experience similar pressure from his "terrorist" group that Arafat experiences from his (Hamas) The pressure will be of quite different kinds. In the Israeli case, the pressure will be political, from the far-right minority. This pressure won't show up until the Israelis think they have someone to negotiate with. In Arafat's case, Hamas is a separate government and a separate army, funded by outside sources, and supported by much of population in Gaza, to whom it provides social services that the PA does not. Hamas is also much less corrupt than the PA. This makes the nature of the pressure and the struggle quite different. Arafat would need to fight a civil war, which he's unwilling to do, and probably unable to do by now as well. Sharon just needs to build a political consensus, not fight a war. In Israel, the government already maintains a monopoly of force. I don't see any pressure building from Israeli "terrorist" groups. There are groups who favor deporting large numbers of Arabs and annexing the West Bank, but they are a relatively small minority.