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To: carranza2 who wrote (30969)	5/28/2002 4:06:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ha'aretz is reporting that Arafat is really trying to stop the attacks now, but is having no success: Analysis / PA engaged in campaign against suicide attacks By Danny Rubinstein, Ha'aretz Correspondent The recent wave of suicide bombings, the most recent being Monday's attack on a Petah Tikva cafe, which killed a woman and her 18-month-old granddaughter, comes as the Palestinian Authority spokesmen are embroiled in an all-out media campaign calling on Palestinians not to carry out such attacks inside Israel. The spokesmen stress that these bombings deeply damage Palestinian interests. PA Chairman Yasser Arafat and his men have made similar pleas in the past, but this most recent campaign is the broadest since the outbreak of violence in late September 2000. Apart from the strong condemnation of these attacks by the upper echelons of the PA, including calling the strikes "terrorist operations," Fatah leaders are for the first time reluctant to be aligned with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which has taken responsibility for the majority of the recent attacks, and deny any link between Al-Aqsa and the Arafat-led movement. It is difficult to accept the claims of many in Israel that Arafat and his men are following a two-faced policy and are actually encouraging suicide attacks. It is more reasonable to assume that the Palestinian leadership does not actually have the power to stop these murderous acts as the man in the street does not heed the PA's calls anyway. haaretzdaily.com Gee, why would anybody think Arafat was following a two-faced policy? His behavior for, say, the last nine years couldn't have any bearing on such a line of reasoning, could it? If Arafat truly has no power (which I doubt; it's just that using the power at this point would require burning his bridges to certain factions, and Arafat never makes irrevocable decisions), then there is only one conclusion, Israel must reoccupy and perform a real police action. The Palestinians are continuing their strategy of suicide -- their best hope now, in their minds, the one they are seriously pursuing, is the Palestinian WTC-style attack that will touch off the real Israeli military operation that can be decried as as "massacre" and "deportation" in the world's press. The world press will be happy to gloss over Israeli casualties and denounce Israeli "brutality".