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limb after the expulsions by
making the continuation of
the peace process contingent
upon bringing the exiles
back. Obviously they felt
obliged to toe the line of Pa-
lestinian unity, and besides,
they could hardly settle for
less than what the Security
Council itself had demand-
ed.
Now, with the Europeans
praising the Israeli-
American deal, the Egyp-
tians supporting it, and
Syria's silence being read as
a sign of consent, the Pales-
tinians are again facing the
specter of being squeezed out
or at least left behind in the
peace negotiations. That
may either spur them to
reconsider their boycott of
the talks or push them fur-
ther onto the sidelines —
where, some observers
suspect, Mr. Rabin would be
glad to have them stay for
the present.
To a large extent, the an-
swer to what happens next
may lay with the media. It's
no secret that regular TV
coverage of the deportees'
tent camp in south Lebanon,
rather than some irrepressi-
ble sympathy for the funda-
mentalist zealots, is what
has kept the issue in the
news.
Israeli officials in the U.S.
were reportedly infuriated
by CNN's intention to do a
special half-hour live broad-
cast from the scene on
Wednesday, thus helping to
keep the subject alive. And
Mr. Rabin has been equally
sore at the Israeli press for
coming out so strongly
against him on the issue,
spotlighting the crumbling
support for the deportations
in his own government.
On the other hand, the
drama of the Hamas
deportees may have begun to
pall. Israelis could not help
noticing that after Mr.
Christopher had completed
his announcement of Israel's
concessions and the Ameri-
can quid pro quo at his Mon-
day press conference, the
first thing reporters asked
him about was the situation
in Bosnia. Mr. Rabin himself
has long been convinced that
once the media grows bored
with the "color" of the
deportees' story — as it did
with the intifada — the issue
will simply go away and he
will be remembered not for
creating the "deportation
mess" but for pulling off the
coup of ridding Israel of 300
fundamentalist
troublemakers and getting
Washington's approval for
it.
Still, that is only half the
challenge. And whether,
after resorting to a measure
that has played on the Pales-
tinians' worst fears, he can
win back their confidence
that he is truly interested in
reconciliation is another
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New York (JTA) — Students
at Israeli universities may
soon be joined by a number
of African American
classmates from
predominantly black Ameri-
can colleges.
That was the hope ex-
pressed by the presidents of
seven black colleges and
universities, all members of
the United Negro College
Fund consortium, who re-
cently spent a week in Israel
visiting their Israeli
counterparts.
The trip, which took place
last month, was under-
written by the Israeli
government and the United
Negro College Fund.
It was part of what one
Israeli consular official de-
scribed as an effort to reach
out to a range of ethnic and
religious groups and help
them understand that
"politics is not everything.
This trip of black college
presidents, while the first of
its kind under Israeli con-
sulate sponsorship, was not
the first interaction some
black colleges have had with
Israeli efforts.
In the last few years, two
black colleges — Wilberforce
University, in Wilberforce,
Ohio, and Bethune-
Cookman College in
Daytona, Fla. — held Israeli
cultural days.
The college students and
the large numbers of Jews
from the surrounding com-
munity who attended mingl-
ed as they listened to Israeli
pop duo Achinoam Nini and
Gil Dor perform, and viewed
an exhibition on Operation
Solomon, the airlift of Ethi-
opian Jews to Israel.