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What About Hamas?
Islamic militants may hold the key to the success of
the Israel-PLO pact on self-rule.
DOUGLAS DAVIS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
T
he wave of euphoria that
might have swept Israel
this week at the prospect of
ending their long-festering
quarrel with the Palestinians has
been overshadowed by dark ques-
tions hanging over the future of
the West Bank and Gaza — and,
ultimately, over their own
security.
Will the emergent autonomous
entity be born in peace or will it
become a cockpit for violence
against the Jewish state?
Will PLO leader Yassir Arafat
make the transition from terror-
ist leader to authentic politician,
or has he been fatally flawed by
the negotiating process and suc-
ceed only in failing to satisfy the
expectations of the Palestinian
street?
Will the Palestinians embark
on the path of nation-building or
will they turn in on themselves
in a bout of fratricidal bloodlet-
ting, pitting PLO supporters
against their Islamic extremist
Hamas rivals?
Will Israel find itself with
Lebanon-style sectarian strife in
its midst, suicide bombers and
all, radicalized Israeli Arab citi-
zens and embattled, vengeful,
out-of-control Jewish settlers?
These questions not only go to
the heart of the peace process but
also to the future security of the
State of Israel, and the frighten-
ing truth is that no one has an-
swers.
What is certain is that an end
to violence, chaos and bloodshed
is the key to the success of the
self-rule plan for Palestinians in
Gaza, Jericho and, down the
road, the rest of the West Bank,
too.
Above all, the war which
Hamas is currently waging
against Israel is the issue on
which everything hinges.
If the Hamas militants con-
tinue attacking Israelis within
the pre-Six Day War borders and
use the autonomous Palestinian
areas as safe havens, Israel will
expect Chairman Arafat's Fatah
loyalists to stop them by force. At
that point, Fatah will have to
choose between confronting their
Palestinian brothers or the Is-
raelis.
Either option is a recipe for dis-
aster.
Optimists believe there are
signs that Hamas will halt its at-
tacks in the wake of a deal that
was struck between Fatah and
Hamas leaders in Gaza last
week. Both sides pledged to keep
their hotheads in check and not
allow them to fight each other;
both agreed to suspend for one
month the killings of those they
consider to be collaborators with
Israeli officials.
If, as Hamas leaders now say,
everything is subordinated to the
principle that there can be no in-
ternecine strife among the Pales-
tinians and the PLO is
committed to halting the violence
against Israel, then there is hope
that Hamas terrorism can be con-
tained, if not actually halted.
One of Israel's foremost com-
mentators on the territories, Dan-
ny Rubinstein, believes that
Hamas is playing a far more nu-
anced game. He says Hamas is
likely to refrain from using the
autonomous areas to launch ac-
tions against Israel, but he warns
that Hamas has not abandoned
the military struggle and says it
will continue to strike at Jewish
settlements in the territories and
at targets inside Israel proper.
"Arafat is unlikely to make a
determined effort to stop them,
but he will make a major effort
to demonstrate that law and or-
der will prevail in those areas
Hamas and
Fatah-PLO loyalists
have pledged not to
fight each other
at least during the
early stages of
Palestinian
self-rule.
where he has control," wrote Mr.
Rubinstein in the Israeli daily
Ha'aretz.
"It may even suit Arafat for
Hamas to continue hitting [at Is-
raeli targets], because this will
increase the incentive for Israel
to give up the rest of the West
Bank and, of course, the settle-
ments."
If that is indeed his reasoning,
the PLO leader is walking a
tightrope. Fatah leaders in the
territories, more attuned to the
realpolitik of Israel, concede that
continued Hamas violence
against Israel could represent a
dagger at the heart of their na-
tional aspirations and that they
will face a serious problem if
Hamas violence continues.
Not surprisingly, one senior
Fatah official in Gaza declared
this week: "We are doing every-