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To: JohnM who wrote (40037)	8/26/2002 4:12:33 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Whoops, the sound of speedy back peddling. ;-) aw, shucks -g- 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. First of all, this is happening on the ground right now, but rejecting Arafat was an absolute necessity for it to happen in the first place. Otherwise, since Arafat is the leader, we only get to talk with Arafat or his guys. As it is, Arafat is wriggling furiously to get off the hook and make sure that Israel and the US really only talk to his guys, not any actual reformer. A lot of the fight is being waged through the new PA finance minister (with the public criticisms of the former finance minister now in London) to try to pry personal control of the entire PA budget out of Arafat's hands. What you really want is for Arafat to leave without outside pressure but that is only going to happen when he dies. I still wonder that Israel has left him alive and in Ramallah this long.