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To: zonder who wrote (52135)	10/15/2002 9:12:29 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Then why couldn't the US make Sharon stop the occupation in the past months when Bush told Sharon to get out? He never told Sharon to "stop the occupation" -- he told him to pull back from an incursion when he was right in the middle of it, with a considerable amount of winking that said 'soon, not right this minute', so Sharon thought he had some time, maybe a little more than Bush had intended. Why can't the US make Israel obey the UN resolutions? The US has never tried to make Israel obey the UN resolutions that said, just leave. The US has only pushed Israel to the negotiating table (Res. 242 et. al. are supposed to be settled by negotiations). And Israel went to the negotiating table. Since the last negotiations ended with the Israelis accepting (reluctantly) the American plan and the Palestinians rejecting it, I don't see how Israeli intransigence is to blame here. Really... Israel does not obey the US. If anything, the chain of command seems to be the other way around. Nonsense.

To: zonder who wrote (52135)	10/15/2002 9:17:30 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What makes you think one head of a country can "make" another head of a country do anything? Influence, persuade, twist a few arms, "coerce", even... but make? As in "I order you to do thus and so because we send you money," ? Not likely. Sharon has to answer to his own people first, and Israeli priorities are not US priorities. (Does Mubarak of Egypt always do what the US wants because of the money we send?) Sharon may always get a hearing with Bush, but that's a far cry from a "chain of command" with Sharon giving the orders to Bush. Got any examples?