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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (6752)	4/18/2004 1:24:44 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Sharon has effectively proposed a solution, and now President Bush has backed it. He will draw the borders, put the fence on them, and withdraw behind the borders. So the Palestinians will have their land, they can decide if they want a state or not. I don't have any problem with the unilateral withdrawal from the territories. Nor would I have a problem with keeping some of the settlements in the West Bank (the ones actually closest to the Green Line and Jerusalem. But I DO have a problem with Bush taking a biased stance towards getting the US into a position as "approving" of it. This was a mistake. Although it sounds as if Sharon was requiring Bush to provide such an approval so that he could thwart attempts by Likud to sabotage the withdrawal policy. But it certainly given Arabs the right to assert that the US has lost it's "honest broker" status. And I wasn't impressed that he didn't mention any of this to Hosni Mubarak. That will leave Mubarak in a very exposed political position. Hawk