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To: TimF who wrote (135462)	6/3/2004 1:12:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Sharon's visit was in 2000, not 1998. And Arafat had assured Barak that there would be no violence. So Barak says, and I see no reason to doubt him - Barak had nothing at all to gain from Sharon's grandstanding. Whose purpose was to remind people that the Waqf did not have sole sovereignty over the Temple Mount. The Israelis, rather too generously in my opinion, gave the Waqf (with the PA) full control over the Temple Mount. In return for this, the Waqf has been illegally hollowing out the mountain, destroying priceless archaeological artifacts and threatening to destabilize it completely (they had to bring in a Jordanian archaeologist to oversee shoring up the south retaining wall) and Arafat walked around telling everybody that there never was any Jewish temple on the site at all.