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Sharon Wants Real Concessions
(New York Post) Uri Dan - When Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet Tuesday, Prime Minister Sharon will be willing to make concessions such as allowing the Palestinians to construct a port on the Gaza Strip and rebuild their destroyed airport there. In return, Sharon will insist that Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas go beyond the fragile, de facto truce and begin to dismantle terrorist organizations like Hamas. Sharon also wants Egypt's President Mubarak to be more than the host of Red Sea Summit II at Sharm el-Sheik. He expects Mubarak to make some commitments of his own, such as to close down the arms-smuggling tunnels connecting the Sinai Desert with Gaza, which have become, in Sharon's words, the terrorists' "oxygen pipeline."