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January 06, 2006
Sharon too "salty" for Madeleine
This is amusing:
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she was surprised at the transformation, based on her dealings with Sharon, then the foreign minister, at U.S.-hosted peace talks on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1998. "He was one of the toughest for us, and he did not want to deal with the Palestinians and saw them as people that have blood on their hands," Albright recalled in an interview.Heh.
Albright, who served under President Bill Clinton, said Sharon refused at a dinner to shake hands with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "Arafat put his hand out and Sharon would not do it, so Arafat gave him a kind of salute, and Sharon did not respond," Albright said. Sharon, she said, "spoke about the Palestinians as if they were not there. It was a very tough meeting."In the negotiations themselves, she said, "He used very salty language."
More from the same article:
"It was Sharon and Sharon alone who was driving" efforts toward peace, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger told reporters in the White House driveway after he and other ex-U.S. officials met with Bush."It'll go back to politics as usual," said former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, standing alongside Eagleburger.
In other words, Bush had nothing to do with it, and we'll be pissed if it's not business as usual, because then we would have to give Bush credit for something. So we would rather be pessimistic.
Judith | 01/06/06 at 07:25 PM | Categories: - Israel vs. the world
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No, I don't think that last bit of analysis is correct. I saw some of this yesterday, and it was clear that Haig and Eagleburger were not on the same page in several of their comments.
Moreover, Eaglerburger was speaking about politics within Israel, not between Israel and here. When he said Sharon alone, he was thinking about Israeli politicians.
However Arianna has a piece up today which makes it seem pretty clear that Olmert is pretty set on peace as well. OTOH, he does have the nation behind him the way Sharon did.
alcibiades | January 6, 2006 08:21 PM
I am sure that Sharon had good reason not to shake Arafat's hand !
Paul | January 7, 2006 04:46 PM
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