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To: Win Smith who wrote (31611)	6/5/2002 8:45:42 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There was this exchange from NYRB. Terrific find, Win. I guess I'm just a cheerleader right now. Just walked in the door from a couple of days traveling so haven't really taken the time to work up arguments. And may not have that time for another week or so. But these quotes from the NYRB are exactly right and precisely to the point.

To: Win Smith who wrote (31611)	6/5/2002 9:02:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The report concluded: "We have no basis on which to conclude that there was a deliberate plan by the PA to initiate a campaign of violence at the first opportunity State Department reports always put the best face on Palestinian violence, for the sake of what do they call it, "the political horizon". There is plenty of evidence that if Arafat didn't exactly plan the outset of the intifada, he hopped on the bandwagon of the violence soon enough, it saved his neck. If he hadn't pointed all the guns at the Israelis, some of them would have been pointed at him. I recommend this excellent 2001 article from IISS Survival, Arafat and the Anatomy of a Revolt, by Prof. Yezid Sayigh of Bir Zeit University. Not a Likud source exactly. www3.oup.co.uk