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To: LindyBill who wrote (9672)	9/28/2003 1:59:38 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793779

Hoagland is confirming what I have been saying. One more major Bus or business bombing and Arafat is History. You will notice that since that word got out, there has not been one. That's lucky for them, LB, since they haven't stopped trying. Just yesterday they gunned down a family eating the festival meal at a settlement. Here's debka's comments on the formation of the new PA government: The tacit US-Israeli endorsement of the Abu Ala government restores Arafat to the standing of Palestinian leader bar none, while leaving him the option to revert to his 40-year old terrorist campaign against Israel in order to extract further concessions – exactly the same tactic he employed each time he “consented” to former US-brokered ceasefires. Ready to hand for violence is the Hamas, whose leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin told the world this week that his group would never accept a truce. Last week, Abu Ala met with Hamas leaders in Gaza City to discuss their future interaction. DEBKAfile’s has obtained access to notes of the prime minister-designate’s remarks at that interview: ”I am under no illusions that a settlement can be achieved in the foreseeable future,” said Abu Ala. “But it is only reasonable for you to stop giving the Sharon government more and more pretexts for attacks. Before anything, my new government must put an end to the “fawda’ (chaos). That’s the way we have to go! We must seek an accommodation to be able to brig order to the chaos. I promise you I have learned my lessons from Abu Mazen and the failure of his hudna and I must stress that the Palestinians have no choice but unity ”I don’t intend telling the organizations who they should appoint as ministers or taking any stands on this point – not with the Fatah either. (This was a hint at the Tanzim ministers Arafat has inserted.) But I must sort out the chaos. It will be much easier for me to work with your consent; without it the job could prove impossible. ”Now I’ll tell you what has to be done. We have to collect weapons from everyone. We must also, stop shooting missiles from Palestinian residential areas, remove explosive stores from civilian neighborhoods, take the masked men off the streets, wipe the graffiti off the walls and stop agitating against the law. To achieve all these things I need your consent. ”I know that the Sharon government holds no solutions for us, but nothing sought by Sharon is decreed by fate.” Our Palestinian sources note that the Hamas leaders Abu Ala out and asked him to leave the room. After a while, they sent him a message that they do not want to see him again because they don’t trust him or his advisers because they are in touch with Israelis. Qureia was left with no option but to communicate with Hamas-Gaza through telephone calls and messengers to the group’s Damascus-based commanders. http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=572