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"Let's not talk about it to- day," pleads a neighbor over afternoon tea. "Let's talk about something else." But who can avoid it? The conver- sation swings unerringly back to riots and batons, Palestinians and politics, public opinion and the media. A soldier on weekend leave — a professional in a crack anti-terrorist unit — ex- presses dismay at the way the army has been used to beat Palestinians involved in violent demonstrations. He regards with distaste the idea of direct physical contact between soldiers and civilians. "This isn't a prob- lem the army can solve," he says. "There is .a feeling that we are having to do the dirty work for the politicians who have done nothing about it for 20 years." Settlement Incentive It's risky to generalize about the attitudes of my neighbors, but after listening to dozens of conversations, it goes something like this: Let the army and police do what they must to restore order and to hell with world opi- nion. The soldiers hugging their M-16s and swinging their clubs are no brutal op- pressors. They are "our boys" whom the forces of heaven should only protect. Beyond that point of con- sensus, the line wavers. I hear plenty of "give-the-Arabs- and-inch-and-they'll-take-a- mile" and a good many who believe that Arik Sharon "will bring the Arabs to heel." But in the very same living rooms, over the same cups of coffee, there are other voices; of Israelis who believe The Situation has reached a point of no return, who do not want to spend their next period of military duty beating up Palestinians or have their sons grow up to do the same. "I'm an armchair colonist," says a young lawyer, only half-joking. "As long as the occupied territories were quiet, it was fine with me. But now? I think we should reach a settlement — either get rid of the land or the Palesti- nians. And quick. If someone came up with a decent political settlment, I'd grab it." The Ultra-Liberals Just over the hill which boasts Hussein's half-built palace is the Hebrew Univer- sity of Jerusalem, bastion of the "yaffe nefesh" ("beautiful soul," but scornfully used by Israelis to mean "bleeding hearts"). Even here, there is no neat consensus. A professor of international relations (and a former senior intelligence executive) has warned Israelis of the apoca- lyptic fate awaiting them if they do not get out of the oc- cupied territories. Now, he assures me, the Palestinian uprising will force Israelis to "change their ideology" and demand an end to the occupa- tion. "I am," he insists, "an optimist:' Another professor, a poli- tical scientist, recalls a cam- pus meeting to discuss human rights in the ter- ritories. "All these intellec-. tuals gnashing their teeth and beating their breasts about how badly we terrible Jews are treating the poor Palestinians," he says. "A young Arab got up and spat at them. He told them how much he hated them, how much the Arabs wanted to get rid of them. Then he walked out. "And do you know how they reacted?" he asked in disgust. "They applauded him. It was too much for me. I walked out, too." Left Wing Dilemmas At a dinner party, the most- ly professional, mostly left- wing guests chew over The Situation with their stuffed vine leaves and kubeh. Someone's son is doing his three-year stint in the army and has been stuck in Gaza for weeks. He hates it, his mother can't sleep. A senior civil servant, a refined and gentle man, ex- presses frustration at the avalanche of international hostility towards Israel's handling of the unrest. "They judge us by a different stan- dard," he sighs into his lemon mousse. "But then, so do I." CALL MR. FRANK FOR AN OFFERING CIRCULAR Rabbi Dannel T. 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