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To: GST who wrote (156415)	1/16/2005 6:43:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

He is not an all-powerful leader -- far from it. He cannot stop the attacks swiftly and certainly despite anything you and I might wish He's got to try. So far, he hasn't tried and has announced that he doesn't intend to try. That's as far from 'all-powerful' as you can get, that's 'powerless'. He doesn't have much time to try, either; Arafat used up all the benefit of the doubt. The same is true for Sharon who cannot wave a magic wand and dismantle all settlements overnight and control the behavior of all "settlers". Sharon is ramming his Disengagement Plan through the Knesset. He is doing something. Nor does he get to pretend that the settlers are a law unto themselves, beyond his control. He is head of the government. When the plan is implemented, the settlers will cooperate or be cleared off by force. When the Pals get a government, then things can proceed.