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To: LindyBill who wrote (10120)	10/1/2003 12:33:15 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793725

By unleashing and sustaining suicide bombers against Israeli civilians, Yasir Arafat outfoxed himself: the Palestinian boss has given substance to the Israeli dream and U.N. promise of "defensible borders." I think so. You can understand why the Palestinians really, really, don't like the fence - just as much as the Israelis don't like the suicide bombers. But at this point, if the Pals want to stop the fence building, they're going to have to call a real cease-fire, something not in Arafat's vocabulary, as everybody in the Mideast knows (Hey, you don't have to ask the Israelis; just ask the Jordanians or the Lebanese). And even if the Pals get a new leader and call a cease-fire, trading a cease-fire for no more fence building is clearly a hugely losing position for them compared to what they were offered in 2000.