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At 1:08 AM -0700 10/13/01, Wilson Zorn wrote:
>  > Its really pathetic what happened yesterday. This Saudi Prince comes
>>  here, visits the WTC, and gives $10 million, and simply hands out a
>>  leaflet saying the US needs to reconsider its biased view - and he is
>>  humiliated by having his money returned. Then today on CNN, I heard
>
>As I understand it the issue Giuliani expressed was that the donation with
>the press release made it seem the WTC strike was somehow justified,
>something I've heard GA and others be rather virulently upset about when
>arguments are presented.  In any case, I can see Giuliani's point although I
>do think we should reconsider our Israeli policy.

I kind of see the point of refusing the money too.  I even think the 
Palestinians do.  In all of this I kind of get the feeling that they 
are actually the big loosers because a lot of sympathy that Americans 
had toward them was destroyed by the perception that the WTC attack 
was done on their behalf and the reaction of some Palestinians to the 
incident was another nail in the coffin.  However Sadat really feels 
in his heart about Americans dying he is definitely not too stupid to 
see the incident as a set back and his public position on the whole 
thing has been very wise IMHO.
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