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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989

A nation under siege, Israel continues to struggle with the
Palestinian uprising, a sagging economy and divisiveness.

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•Orthotics
•Corns, Callouses
• Diabetic Foot Care
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A Not-So-Sweet Year
For the People of Israel

Best
Wishes
for a
Happy
and
Healthy
New
Year

S

hana Tova!
The traditional
greeting will have a
hollow ring for Israelis as
they embark on 5750.
The Jewish New Year is a
time of reflection and
renewal; of national and
personal stock-taking; of
regrets for things past and
hopes for a better future.
This year, however, the
honey on Israel's Rosh
Hashanah apples will have
lost some of its former
sweetness.
True, Israel has faced
tough times in the past, ex-
ternal enemies whose une-
quivocal intention was the
liquidation of both the Jews
and their State. For many
complex reasons, that
danger — for the moment, at
least — has receded.
Yet while the threat of na-
tional extinction is further
removed than ever, neither
the scope nor the intensity of
Israel's collective dilemmas
has ever been so wide, so
deep, so immediate, so in-
tractable. Israel today is a
state under siege.
Peering out into a new
year, Israelis are beset by
political uncertainty and
military insecurity, by the
specter of a fresh economic
catastrophe, the highest
recorded levels of
unemployment and by the
same old crippling political
divisiveness and bitterness
that have come to
characterize their national
unity government.
All these problems, of
course, are compounded by
the numbing, daily routine
of the Palestinian uprising,
which has added the word
"intifada" to the interna-
tional political lexicon and
dominated the political
landscape for the past 22
months.
While the uprising con-
tinues to exact a high price
in terms of casualties and
social dislocation at home, it
is also continuing to take its
toll on Israel's prestige
abroad, threatening to fur-
ther destabilize the balance
of Israel's fragile social
structure and, not least, its
relations with the United
States.
Facing a barrage of diplo-

matic initiatives — illusory
or not — Israel remains in
the grip of a bizarre political
paralysis. It is unable to
provide a clear, coherent
response to the incessant
appeals for some kind of
movement; unable to ad-
vance even its own initiative
for elections among Palesti-
nians in the occupied ter-
ritories.
Instead of exploiting the
opportunities for peace that

Shamir: A dreamer in the Holy
City.

appear to have opened up
over the past year, Official
Israel reflexively perceives
fresh initiatives, whether of
style or substance, with
trepidation, suspicion and
hostility.
Instead of exercising ra-
tional, creative, flexible
judgment, Israel's national
unity partners, locked into
their unhappy alliance, opt
for short-term, short-sighted
expedients.
Instead of confronting the
challenges, they retreat into
obsolescent postures and
clutch tenaciously at the
umbilical cord of Masada
rhetoric.
Instead of addressing the
new reality, they focus their
energies and waste their
strength on the pursuit of
personal vendettas and po-
litical rivalries.
Nor does culpability for
the stalemate rest with only
one of the major political
blocs.
While Likud leader Yit-
zhak Shamir is constrained
by party dogma from any se-
rious attempt to break the

impasse, Labor leader
Shimon Peres appears to
have been terminally dev-
astated by King Hussein's
decision to disengage from
the process and deprive him
of his much-vaunted
"Jordanian Option."
Both Shamir and Peres,
approaching the end of their
political roads, are feeling
the hot breath of ambitious
successors on their necks.
Both appear determined to
hang on, whatever the cost,
until the bitter end.
In their anxiety to fill the
very large shoes of their
predecessors — and to leave
their own distinctive mark
on Israel's historical tableau
— they sometimes appear to
lose sight of the larger goal,
devoting themselves instead
to scoring cheap shots off
each other.
Yet despite the morbidity
of the national unity
government and its inability
to take one step forward
without taking two back, the
unnatural coalition between
Israel's major power blocs is
likely to remain intact — at
least while Shamir and
Peres remain at the helm of
their respective parties.
For Shamir, a break-up of
the national unity coalition
would mean transferring a
disproportionate share of
power to the small religious
parties on whose support the
Likud would then depend for
its survival in office. It
would also render him a vir-
tual prisoner of Likud's mili-
tant hard-line elements,
such as Trade Minister Ariel
Sharon and Housing Min-
ister David Levy.
For Peres, it would simply
be the end of a long,
underachieving political ca-
reer. He would be swiftly
swept aside by any one of a
cluster of ambitious
challengers — Defense Min-
ister Yitzhak Rabin
foremost among them — who
see in his lackluster leader-
ship the main obstacle to
Labor's return to its glory
days.
The story of Israel's
predicament is not, however,
confined to bitter in-
ternecine domestic rivalries.
The constellation of prob-
lems that now face Israel has
had a devastating effect,
tearing at the very fabric of
Israeli society and polarizing
the divisions between left