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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40033)	8/26/2002 3:53:03 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This sounds as if you agree that it would be useless for Israel to try to "take the lead" as long as Arafat is in place and irreplaceable...don't look now, we may have found some common ground. Whoops, the sound of speedy back peddling. ;-) No, I didn't mean that. I rather meant that, and this won't happen, the US and Israel would take the public leadership role but try to work with other elements in the PA at the same time to transfer the negotiating process away from Arafat into other's hands. Perhaps that's not possible. My objection to the present approach is that it leaves the US and Israel in the not so admirable position of trying to publicly force the Palestinians to change their leadership. That tends to produce the opposite results.