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...With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Nablus
...Jamil Hamad: I think the Israelis made a mistake, and that mistake was what caused the Americans to protest. Because it was a mistake that the Americans could not ignore - occupying another country is crossing a certain boundary. When Saddam Hussein entered Kuwait, that led most of the Arab states to support the U.S. in the Gulf War. So the Americans could not keep silent in the face of what had happened in Gaza, even if they believed Israel had been provoked by the mortar attacks...
...Panelists included Esko Aho, prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995; Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990; Malcolm Fraser, prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983; Jamil Mahuad, president of Ecuador from 1998 to 2000; and Abdel Salam Majali, prime minister of Jordan from 1993 to 1995 and again from...
...Jamil Hamad: According to my sources in the Palestinian Authority (PA), there is a sense of anger and betrayal - although perhaps you have to measure that against the way they were treated by the Clinton administration. There's now a feeling that the U.S. administration is abandoning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, trying to stay away from it. They see the Bush administration betting on Egypt and Jordan to pressure the PA to denounce terror and resume security coordination with Israel. But according to my source, Washington is being too optimistic...
...Jamil Hamad: What Sharon is doing is repeating what he did in Gaza many years ago when he was the Israeli commander there. He adopted the policy of making life for ordinary Palestinians easier, but at the same time giving the hard-liners and militants a hell of a time, trying to isolate them in the Palestinian population...