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http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=547
Is Washington Floating Israel-Palestinian Role as Inducement for European Troops in Iraq?
DEBKAfile Special Report from Washington
August 25, 2003, 1:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
The surprise scheme for stemming Palestinian violence came from an unexpected direction. Two powerful US senators, Richard Lugar (Rep-Indiana), chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee and Dianne Feinstein (Dem.-California) mooted the same idea at the same moment in Wolf Blitzer’s weekly Late Edition over CNN Sunday, August 24.
Lugar suggested Washington should invoke NATO. “We ought to involve others in the Middle East. The terrorists have to be routed out because they will ruin any possibility for peace in that area.”
Feinstein agreed. “I hope we’re not there, but we may well be. The Palestinians have wanted a United Nations or an American observer force. But you have to have some military entity that is going to be able to control terror. Otherwise, the situation is going to dissolve into nothingness.”
This bipartisan venture over a premier TV program suggests it was not altogether spontaneous or unsolicited. There is no formal word from the Bush administration that any such scheme exists, but DEBKAfile’s Washington sources would not be surprised to find that the two senators were asked by a senior Bush administration official, such as secretary of state Colin Powell or National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, to float a trial balloon on a platform that enjoys a substantial international audience to see where it lands.
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