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leading inexorably to the
abandonment of
"moderation" and a move
toward forms of political and
religious extremism which
rejects dialogue of any sort
with the Jewish state.
Indeed, the Palestinians in
the occupied territories are
already showing signs of
adopting precisely such ex-
tremist forms. The intifada
may have rescued PLO
leader Yassir Arafat from
the scrapheap of history but,
after renouncing terrorism
and implicitly accepting
Israel's existence, he has
staked his leadership on a
negotiated settlement and
the scrapheap awaits him if
he is unable to deliver
relatively quickly.
Given that the fundamen-
talists and the extremist
Popular Front for the Lib-
eration of Palestine (PFLP)
are edging toward an alli-
ance, and given that the
PFLP already controls 20
percent of the Palestine Na-
tional Council, it is not hard
to see where the future lies if
Arafat is unable to deliver
his promised mini- Palestin-
ian state in the West Bank
and Gaza.
Israeli officials might con-
fidently declare that they
can continue their contain-
ment of the uprising, but
their assurances sound
hollow when set against
their experience in Lebanon,
where Israeli troops were
savaged by a succession of
suicide bombers dispatched
by the fundamentalist Hiz-
bollah movement.
Yassir Arafat may indeed,
as Israeli officials insist, be
an inveterate liar who
speaks out of both sides of
his mouth when he re-
nounces terrorism; he may
indeed be deviously plann-
ing Israel's destruction "in
stages" even as he claims to
recognize Israel's right to ex-
ist. The harsh reality,
however, is that any alter-
native to Arafat can only be
worse.
At the same time, it is now
clear that the moderate
elements within the Likud
are not going to produce a
"credible Palestinian
leadership" within the ter-
ritories with whom they can
negotiate an autonomy
agreement which will allow
the Palestinian inhabitants
to take control of their own
day-to-day affairs while
leaving Israel in ultimate
control of the land.
Nor are the moderate
elements in Labor going to
reach a settlement which ex-
cludes the PLO and, while
offering territory for peace,
leaves ultimate control of
the West Bank's strategic
high ground in Israeli hands
and a united Jerusalem
under Jewish sovereignty.
Perhaps, after all, the con-
flict is too complicated, too
intractable, too entrenched
and too emotional to be
resolved by neat formulae
over plates of pita and
felafel; perhaps, after all, the
competition between Jewish
nationalism and Palestinian
nationalism is a zero-sum
game and the very idea of a
negotiated settlement, with
either a Labor or Likud
Israel, is a chimera.
Nevertheless, Israel must
try, and must be seen to be
trying, to reach an accom-
modation. What is critically
important is that Israel's
leaders say something more
constructive than "No" to
the • daily international en-
treaties to engage in some
form of diplomatic process.
Equally urgent is the need
for Israel's leaders to set
their own house in order. A
degree of uncertainty about
the future is a natural condi-
tion of the most sophisti-
cated, stable democracies,
but Israel's political leaders
must move swiftly to reduce
the list of imponderables fac-
ing their people.
They must end their
morale-sapping squabbles,
the growing alienation of
their citizens and the in-
escapable perception that
their personal political for-
tunes take precedence.
Ordinary Israelis - already
working a six-day week, pay-
ing the highest taxes in the
world and serving up to two
months a year in military
reserve duty - must be given
a sense that their voices are
being heard. They must be
reassured that the clatter
and clamor of the Israeli po-
litical bazaar is not simply
masking a complete absence
of policy, direction and in-
itiative.0
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