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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (100259)	6/4/2003 9:14:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

If Sharon is going to dismantle any non-symbolic number of settlements, he is going to have to add Labor to his coalition, and subtract the "every square meter is our Holy Land" coalition members. Not quite. First of all, Labor was invited into Sharon's governing coalition; it was they who refused to join. Now that Mitzna, the dope, is gone, they might feel differently should one of the right-wing parties decide to bolt. Secondly, for the Israeli public to seriously support the implementation of "painful concessions", they are going to have to see some deeds, not just words, and only English words at that, from the other side. So far Abu Mazen has done zip. Even words alone might move the Israelis, if they were real words in Arabic. For instance, if Abu Mazen stopped the continual incitement on PA TV and said instead, on TV and in Arabic, We are struggling for a two-state solution: an Arab state of Palestine next to a Jewish state of Israel. Would that be so much to ask? Yet even that is far beyond what Abu Mazen has delivered so far.