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To: GST who wrote (110032)	8/5/2003 2:51:26 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I was not impressed by Sharon when he authorized the killings in the refugee camps many years ago. He did not authorize them, Elie Hobeicka did. You don't have to believe Sharon is a nice guy, the Israeli political reaction was 100% predictable. Sharon lost his job and it was thought at the time, his political career as well. His actions always seemed to intentionally inflame Palestinians. It doesn't take much to inflame the Palestinians - but it always suits them to blame Sharon. The intifada was prepackaged and waiting to go by the Summer of 2000 when the Camp David talks fell apart; they were just waiting for an opportune moment. Sharon provided one by the "provocation" of walking onto the Temple Mount. The Palestinians have found that if they say often enough that it is a crime for a Jew to walk onto the Temple Mount (the holiest site in Judaism), most of the Western press will just accept the claim.