POLITICAL HARVEST FOR AQSA INTIFADA AT BEIRUT'S SUMMIT KUWAIT -- ARAFAT WHO LEFT BEIRUT AS A NATIONAL SYMBOL IS PREVENTED FROM RETURNING TO IT AS A LEADER OF A COUNTRY IN ITS LAST STAGE OF BECOMING INDEPENDENT.
EVERYONE TOPPED BY THE AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS ARE PRESSURING SHARON TO ALLOW ARAFAT TO LEAVE RAMALLAH, BUT SUCH MEASURES ARE NO OF INTEREST FOR SHARON SINCE HE HOPES THAT ARAFAT'S ABSENCE AT THE ARAB SUMMIT WOULD ABORT THE SAUDI INITIATIVE.
THE SAUDI INITIATIVE PLACES THE ISRAELIS DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF A TRUE SETTLEMENT AND OPENS THE DOORS TO A HISTORIC SETTLEMENT NOT ONLY BETWEEN THE ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS BUT ALSO WITH ALL THE ARABS.
SHARON DOES NOT HOLD ANY POLITICAL PROGRAM .. WHAT MADE HIM PREMIER WAS A BALLOT OF VOTERS CONVINCED THAT HE WOULD PUT AN END TO THE PALESTINIAN INTIFADA WHICH HE HAD IGNITED BY DESECRATING THE AQSA MOSQUE.
IN ITS COMMENTARY ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN THE PALESTINIAN LANDS, THE MAARIV ISRAELI NEWSPAPER SAID SHARON HAS NO OTHER POLICY AND HAS NO COURAGE, OUTLOOK NOR POLITICAL SUPPORT TO CARRY OUT A DIFFERENT POLICY.
SHARON DOES NOT BELIEVE A WORD MADE BY ARAFAT .. DOES NOT RELY ON PALESTINIANS AND AVOIDS THE SYRIANS AND HAS CLOUDY RELATIONS WITH THE EGYPTIANS AND FEARS THE SAUDIS, IT CONTINUED TO SAY.
IT SAID SHARON HAS NO DESIRE TO REACH ANY SETTLEMENT THAT MIGHT LEAD TO A TRUE PALESTINIAN INDEPENDENT STATE .. HE SIMPLY DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THAT .. THAT IS WHY YOU SEE HIM IN CONFLICT BETWEEN HIS TRUE DESIRE TO GET RID OF ARAFAT AND THE INTENSE PRESSURES IMPOSED ON HIM FROM VARIOUS SIDES. (MORE) AD.HM KUNA 271551 Mar 02NNNN