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r. Prime Minster, if
you don't blow up
the terrorist's
house, I'll do it per-
sonally," an angry Edna
Azariah, the widow of a man
stabbed to death in south Tel
Aviv recently, threatened
Yitzhak Rabin. "What are
you waiting for?"
The prime minister had
taken the call from the
grieving family not knowing
that the 20-minute conver-
sation was being recorded
and would be played backed
to a news conference while
the week of mourning was
still in progress.
"I can't [demolish the
house] because I'm pro-
hibited from doing so by
law," Mr. Rabin explained.
"With the deportation of the
400, as well, I had to wait 18
hours — which bollixed the
deportation for me because I
had to act according to the
[ruling of] the High Court."
"Our request must be at
the head of your priorities,"
the widow scolded the prime
minister, "before you smoke,
before you drink coffee, you
have to worry about me —
and don't tell me tales about
the High Court . . . What
kind of prime minister are
you? It's unthinkable that
we shoiild have to live here
in such insecurity."
That embarrassing
exchange, printed in detail
in Israel's tabloids, was but
one of the bitter responses to
the recent murders of
Israelis by Palestinian ex-
tremists.
While attention in the
United States was focused
on the spectacular bombing
of Manhattan's World Trade
Center, after weeks of
relative calm the cycle of Pa-
lestinian terrorism resumed
in Israel.
Unsettling as the deaths
are, and unpleasant as it is
to admit, the murders have
begun to assume an almost
routine character. Ram-
pages by frustrated, angry,
or crazed Palestinians on the
streets of Israel's cities come
in waves now, and the re-
sponse to them is equally
predictable: outbursts of
outrage over the
vulnerability of the Israeli
man in the street followed by
a blockade of the Gaza Strip
as a means both of punishing
— "deterring," in the lang-

A victim of Arab terror is
remembered.

ques — the Palestinian
population and protecting it
against retaliatory action by
hot-headed Israelis.
Even the call to pull
unilaterally out of the Gaza
Strip, which was sounded
again last week by Labor's
Health Minister Chaim
Ramon and Meretz's Energy
Minister Amnon Rubinstein,
has an all-too-familiar ring
to it. Once more Mr. Rabin
dismissed the idea out of
hand, refusing — snap-
pishly, it was reported — to
spend any of the govern-
ment's time exploring it.
The sense of deja vu was
barely shaken even by the
new ingredient added to the
mix: the call by the Council
of Jewish Settlements in
Judea, Samaria and Gaza for
Israeli soldiers and civilians
to open fire in response to all
incidents of stone throwing
— contrary to the present
orders permitting them to
open fire only if they find
themselves in mortal
danger.
Knesset deputy Benyamin
Netanyahu, the leading con-
tender in the Likud's upcom-
ing race for that party's top
slot, added his voice to the
chorus by recommending not
only that the government
simplify the procedure for
acquiring fire arms but that
it equip its citizens with
weapons so that, in the
absence of effective police
protection, they can defend
themselves in the event of
attack.
The natural result of such
suggestions was visions of
the Wild West coming to the
Middle East as startled or
enraged — and wholly un-

