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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (1376)	7/13/2002 5:20:10 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3467

Try again, the text please. No Arafat text available from your source, just a newspaper reporters interpretation. "The White House on Friday was dismissive of a statement from Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat that he is now ready to accept a peace plan he rejected in the closing days of the Clinton administration. Arafat told the Jerusalem daily Ha'aretz he would accept the peace plan that was developed at Camp David and then refined in later negotiations in Taba, Egypt -- a proposal Arafat rejected at the time, frustrating the Clinton administration and then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. When he took office, the current Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, said Barak's proposals no longer were on the table. Arafat's comments came just after on of his senior advisers, Nabil Shaath, told senior U.S. officials that Palestinian officials were prepared to make a number of compromises for peace, including stepping back from a long-standing demand that Palestinian refugees have a right to return to Israel. Top Bush administration advisers played down the significance of the Palestinian statements, suggesting the statements regarding peace would be viewed as more credible if Arafat took firm actions to crack down on terrorist activity based in the Palestinian territories. When asked about Arafat's latest comments, one official involved in the White House discussions about Bush's new framework said it would be based on the president's views and from "the months of listening to his advisers and talking and listening to our friends in the region." Bush has never met with Arafat and has made no effort to talk to him as he considered the new U.S. approach. Senior Bush advisers have said the new framework is centered around political and security reforms within the Palestinian Authority that are in part designed to reduce Arafat's day-to-day role in Palestinian affairs and decision-making. -- CNN White House Correspondent Kelly Wallace contributed to this report.