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[new] the possible exception of arafat? (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#2)
by Anonymous Stranger on Thu Sep 18th, 2003 at 09:12:34 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME

Not to start a flame war here, but I'm absolutely amazed that you could see Arafat as the one person of those three leaders who is possibly committed to peace? I support neither Bush nor Sharon with their policies in this conflict, but yet it seems so obvious that Arafat is the major roadblock in the whole effort. Toward the end of Clinton's term, when Arafat and Barak met at camp David, Israel was prepared to make incredibly deep concessions for peace (far deeper than they are apparently willing to go now), including, if am not mistaken, the sharing of Jerusalem. Arafat squandered this opporunity, and now we find ourselves at this miserable point today. Arafat, as a leader, is inept. He, unlike Barak at Camp David, has been unwilling to make the extremely difficult choices necessary on his side to attain peace. Choices like giving Abbas far more support and control over the security forces (will he give the new PM a bit more flexibility?), putting full PA effort into reigning in the terrorists (yes, i use that word instead of militants) or at least giving the appearance of going after them with full effort, even if his resources are restricted. As long as he continues to waver on the issue of reigning in the bombers, he is effectively using them and their actions as bargaining chips with Israel, and that will never be tolerated.

Daoud, i respect your opinion, but I find it somewhat humorous that you characterize the suicide bombings as revenge attacks for assasination attempts on militants. I'm not saying that Israel should continue its assasination attempts, but I seem to recall a bus bombing killing 20 Israeli civilians as the start of this most recent wave of violence (so much for a cease fire... really just a re-arming). If they are revenge attacks, does that mean that if Israel ceases its assasination attempts there will be no more bombings? I somehow doubt that....

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