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To: JohnM who wrote (41375)	9/1/2002 2:54:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Israeli settlements played a very large role in the creation of the present. For D to say it's only Arafat over 30 years, or you to say so now, is to way over simplify history. You might be have some justification in saying so (assuming that you totally ignored Arafat's record of trashing his own economy and preparing only for war), had Barak not put an Israeli offer on the table which proposed dismantling 80% of the settlements. This wasn't good enough to even generate a counterproposal, apparently. The point is not that it's only Arafat's fault, that the other side has been angels. The point is that Arafat is a mobster, and you do not turn mobsters into democrats by offering them more and more goodies. If Arafat had it in him to be a statesman, he would have behaved very differently during the last ten years. At this point, proclaiming that it all would have been different "if only" he had been offered more sooner is the purest form of fantasy. I understand why Shimon Peres indulges in it but I don't understand why you do. p.s. you really don't understand UFB? curious. hint: think about it for a minute, you'll get it.