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Rabin, Arafat
Trade Blame

Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and Palestine Libera-
tion Organization Chairman
Yassir Arafat escalated
their rhetorical war over the
weekend, with the Israeli
press as the battlefield.
Last week, Israel's largest-
circulation daily, Yediot
Achronot, published a
lengthy interview with Mr.
Arafat, in which the Pales-
tinian leader defended his
role in the peace process.
This was Mr. Arafat's first
interview with a main-
stream Israeli newspaper.
Mr. Rabin fired back on
the weekend.
Addressing Israeli editors
and journalists, the prime
minister repeated his con-
tention that Arafat con-
stitutes "the major obstacle"
in the Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations, which are due
to resume in Washington
next week.
But Mr. Rabin discomfited
his audience by drawing an
analogy from Israeli history
to explain why Palestinian
autonomy in the ad-
ministered territories would
inevitably eclipse the PLO.
Mr. Arafat's organization,
said Mr. Rabin, "would
become like the World
Zionist Organization,"
which had acted as the de
facto Jewish government in
Palestine prior to the crea-
tion of the State of Israel,
but has since been a minor
ideological and philan-
thropic appendage.
After eyebrows were rais-
ed and chairs self-
consciously shifted among
his Tel Aviv audience, Mr.
Rabin added: "Lehavdil,"
the phrase used by religious
Jews when emphasizing the
difference between the
sacred and the profane.
The premier sought by this
analogy to explain why it
was "readily understan-
dable" that Mr. Arafat
sought to block the talks on
autonomy.
Later, he added by way of
further explanation that Mr.
Arafat would be as impotent
regarding policy-making in
the autonomous areas as the
WZO became for policy-
making in Israel once the
sovereign Israeli govern-
ment was established.
Mr. Rabin was speaking at
the annual Editors' Com-
mittee luncheon marking
Nov. 29, the day in 1947
when the U.N. General

Assembly voted to partition
Palestine.
In a somber, almost
ominous tone, Mr. Rabin
castigated the present-day
Palestinians for "not learn-
ing from history."
"Are they in danger of re-
peating their historic
mistake" made when they
rejected partition, Mr. Rabin
asked. "Have they learned
nothing?"
The premier devoted much
of his address to economic
issues, stressing his deter-
mination to sell government
companies, most of which, he
declared, are inefficiently
run.
He spoke angrily of bu-
reaucratic complexities
holding up key road-building
projects in the center of the
country, thereby
perpetuating a situation in
which drivers spend hours

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Mr. Rabin
castigated the
present-day
Palestinians for
"not learning from
history."

each week wasting their
time in traffic bottlenecks.
But his focus on Mr. Arafat -
and on the perilous state of
the negotiations with the
Palestinians — as well as his
instantly controversial
analogy with the WZO —
served to draw attention to
the intricate situation on the
"Palestinian front" of the
peace process.
Both the Palestinian
negotiators and the PLO
leadership are threatening
to quit the talks unless
Israel softens its stance, and
are vociferously yearning for
energetic American
intervention after President-
elect Clinton takes office
January 20.
Mr. Rabin for his part
seldom lets a day go by
without attacking Mr.
Arafat for doing his best to
thwart the chance of pro-
gress.
And now Mr. Arafat, in a
radical departure, has given
a lengthy interview, in his
headquarters in Tunis, to
two leading Israeli jour-
nalists with Yediot

Achronot.

Plainly, the PLO chiefs
purpose is to reach out to the
Israeli public and convince