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deliver, that it is too late for
the "PLO moderates."
In fact, one Rabin man had
the temerity to remind his
boss. that just a few months
ago he was backing llamas,
the Moslem fundamentalist
movement in the territories,
against the PLO's
hegemony. Rabin finally
cracked down on llamas and
arrested its entire leader-
ship once he learned that
they were just as bad or
worse than the PLO when it
came to terrorism against
Israeli Jewish targets.
Now, the question is
whether or not Rabin has
made another serious
miscalculation.
Rabin stands by his state-
ment that "we cannot con-
tinue saying that there is
nothing to discuss when the
Palestinians accept elections
and our two-stage approach
to a settlement. We
shouldn't expect the
Palestinians to drop to their
knees, and to refuse to
negotiate with them when
they don't do so."
He is a tenacious man,
simply unwilling to let the
peace initiative, vetted by
the Knesset four months
ago, die away.
He sees no military solu-
tion to the intifada, and
never has. To his military
mind, the lack of clearly
defined objectives, an overall
plan, inevitably spells
defeat. He looks at the in-
tifada as an unwinnable
war, with Israel playing the
role of the French or
Americans in Algeria or
Vietnam. "There's no way of
eliminating the fighting
capacity and spirit
of...millions of people who
are dedicated to the sanctity
of their cause," he once told
columnist Joe Alsop, referr-
ing to the American battle
against the Vietnamese.
It is not a colonial war
here, but Rabin's words from
another era are relevant to
his perception of the
Palestinian-Israeli situation.
He dislikes intensely chief
rival in Labor, Shimon
Peres, but when Peres led
the calls for acceptance of
Mubarak's proposals as a
starting point for negotia-
tions, Rabin endorsed his
adversary's views without
reservations.
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