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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (114347)	9/10/2003 11:54:13 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Doesn't sound like this was about Deir Yassin. More about stopping Begin from messing up the cease fire. It was about having one government in Israel, with one policy and a monopoly of force. Part of the urgency for doing it was that the Irgun did things like Deir Yassin. Sounds a bit like Abbas trying to stop Hamas et al It would do, if Abbas had ever tried to stop Hamas. But he never tried. Arafat's possibility for an Altalena moment came and went long ago. There were many points at which Arafat could have followed Ben Gurion's lead if he had wanted to. But his aims are different. Ben Gurion wanted to build a state, while Arafat only wants to destroy a state.