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In "A Rising Tide of Blood" you quote a top Arafat aide as saying, "Sharon has nothing to offer the Palestinians" (World Affairs, March 18). Maybe that is true from his perspective, but Sharon's predecessor, Ehud Barak, certainly had more than "something" to offer: namely, 96 percent of the disputed territories and a shared Jerusalem. This bold proposal was met with a blunt refusal by Yasir Arafat at Camp David since it did not include a resettlement of millions of Palestinians within the borders of Israel, an action synonymous with national suicide for the tiny state of Israel. This is the reason Sharon was elected. Until the question "What can the Palestinians offer the ...