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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (67068)	1/19/2003 5:51:17 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, I just ran across this column. I take it this an opinion from the right that is not nostalgiac about Rabin. israelnationalnews.com Now that’s the true objective of the election sideshows and red herrings. It’s to scatter the votes more evenly among the parties than they normally would have been given the rude reawakening of the electorate in the aftermath of the Left’s Oslo debacle. Divide and conquer. With the Arabs dressed in full war paint, it was unrealistic to expect the Left to hold its ground. But, by spreading the votes thin and funneling some right-leaning support to clean-cut "centrists," at least the strength of any true nationalist opposition to the establishment’s next suicide mission could be minimized. Lost in the soup. With no party, faction or ideology gaining a clear mandate, Mr. Sharon will have all the justification he needs to cast the widest net to form his "unity" government. All things then being equal, he emerges as the strongman. Anyway, that’s the theory.