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To: NickSE who wrote (101721)	6/16/2003 1:42:09 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The EU is now dangling the threat of adding the political wing of Hamas to exert pressure following a fresh wave of violence that threatens to engulf new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas before he can assert his authority. This is interesting. It appears a concerted effort by the leading supporters of both sides, the US and EU, are applying pressure upon Hamas. And the implicit threat is a combined military action to neutralize Hamas military infrastructure. I was wondering what form any actual intervention by the US, and perhaps the EU, might take. I believe we can be pretty much assured that Israel will not tolerate UN or foreign forces on their territory, so it might wind up that any intervening force is coordinated directly with Abbas. The Israelis obviously would not like that because any leverage they might possess would evaporate. But I was thinking about it through the morning and wondering about the pros and cons and am starting to wonder if making the PA a UN protectorate and administered entity might be one potential solution. It would certainly work to dissipate, IMO, the ongoing rhetoric on the Arab street about US support only for Israel. But the risks are obviously very great as well. However, we might be seeing a consensus that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict HAS TO BE settled, even if on terms imposed by the US and EU. Hawk

To: NickSE who wrote (101721)	6/16/2003 6:28:18 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Arab prince ousted for supporting rights of women straitstimes.asia1.com.sg .....According to the paper, a government employee close to the ruling family said the move centred on his wife, Shaikah Fawqai al-Qassimi, a playwright and women's rights activist in her early 40s. 'Sheikh Khaled was told, at a meeting with his father and six of his brothers, that he had to banish his wife from the emirate and demolish the ladies' club that helps women here if they have problems,' the employee was reported to have said. 'She has done a lot to bring the country forward, but Sheikh Saud does not feel there is a place for women in today's Arab society.'..... Anti- violence conference on Arab woman: Half of all wives beaten last year arabicnews.com An official report about violence against Arab women revealed a drastic shortage in information on the prevalence of this phenomenon, noting that the demographic and health survey for 1995 was the first field study to discuss the extent of the spread of certain aspects of violence phenomenon against women in Egypt. The report stressed that one in three Egyptian woman were exposed to beating in the past year and the rate reaches more than half concerning beating in general during marriage time and that 45 % of them were beaten once, at least this year, while women exposed to beating for three to 6 times during the same period of time reached 17%, and that 10% of women who were beaten to the extent that they needed medication. Moreover, 32% of the women were beaten during their pregnancy.....