White House: Sharon's warning "unacceptable"

[Jeffrey Fisher]

i've already been wondering if the peres-sharon rift was a good cop/bad cop
ploy, but the longer this goes on and the more vehement the US is publicly
that sharon's statements are unacceptable (see also sharon's efforts to
cancel the peres-arafat minisummit in the aftermath of 9-11), the more i
think sharon is in way way over his head and is simply inept as a
politician. he's a one-note PM lacking any sense of subtlety or diplomacy;
it's likely to be the end of his government, if he's not careful.


> From: Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:14:08 -0700
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: White House: Sharon's warning "unacceptable"
> 
> Or it could be a choreographed arrangement.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:06:14PM +0000, Carl Remick wrote:
>>> From: Gary Ashwill <gna at duke.edu>
>>> 
>>> How genuine is this developing rift between Israel and the U.S.?
>>> 
>>> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House on Friday said Israeli Prime Minister
>>> Ariel Sharon's warning to the United States not to "appease" Arabs at
>>> Israel's expense is "unacceptable."
>> 
>> Who knows how real or lasting this rift is?  However, since diplomatic-speak
>> tends to be happy talk in its most anodyne form, calling Sharon's warning
>> bluntly "unacceptable" does seem to signal a new level of US irritation.
>> 
>> Carl
>> 
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