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To: steve kammerer who wrote (6647)	5/20/2004 9:31:04 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

We agree on that. Sharon is not going to be around that much longer. He'll do the withdrawal, claim that he started peace and then feel good about his place in history, and use this to try to stop the criminal probes that he will surely face. As for Arafat, I don't know if he will voluntarily step aside. He needs to protect his financial and political power base. I'm sure he fears that the corruption that is publicly spoken about may come back to bite him if he steps down. More likely would be Arafat giving his PM real power to negotiate. So far, he has been unwilling to do this.

To: steve kammerer who wrote (6647)	5/20/2004 10:59:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

We wouldn't have Sharon tell Bush one thing while he tells his people something else Phony equivalence. Show me where Sharon said one thing to Bush and another to the Israelis. Well, with Arafat, you can find something every time he talks. Just this week he quoted from the Koran and told the Palestinians they should "terrorize their enemies" while telling any Western reporter who would talk to him how super keen he was to talk peace. That's how it's been for over 10 years. Peace in English, Jihad in Arabic. As for leaving, don't worry, Sharon's term is up next year and he will go, if not sooner. Arafat's term was up in 1999. He didn't go and won't, except feet first.