Last thing i heard bush say was that he though arafat should curb militants. Gee thats easy to do when you have ENEMY SODLIERS in your compund, no phone, power, or water and most of your force has got to pissed off with being shot at while trying to do thier job so has left to attack Isrealis. WHne bush stops licking Sharon's ass ill agre he's doing something.
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Unfortunately jaguar's right, neither side even trusts the other enough at this point for a cease-fire to be meaningful. If X calls for a cease fire, some idiot from Y will kill some more X, forcing X to retaliate and here we go again.
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At the same time, Northern Ireland got passed that, if you relaly wnat peace you have to irgnore them long enough to start a peacefire, Isreal is not *willing* to do that, and has made sure there is a continual circle of violence thereby making the 7 days of peace bullshit impossible.
Tw, i believe Arafat wielded enough power at that point to stop it, but blood on the streets is unquestionably a powerful negoitating tool. The other issue is that arafat has always been preoccupied by the way he'll be protrayed in history, the only way to keep the dream of a true palastininan state with Jerusulem and without a few hundred thousands settelers is to fight to the death, because Isreal will never give thsoe concessions willingly. As for a palastinian state, Syria and JOrdan shoudl also give territory if they were serious about the area where palastine should be.