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Divorce, Not
Reconciliation

For many Israelis, the peace process means just one
thing — to be rid of Arabs and terrorism.

LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

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SUNDAY,
MAY 22, 1994
7:00 P.M.

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IN UNITY WE GATHER.

IN UNITY WE PRAY.

f all the Israelis in my fam-
ily, Maya is known for hat-
ing Arabs the worst.
"For Maya, the only
good Arab is a dead Arab, right?"
one of the cousins asked her once.
"No, dead isn't good enough for
me; he's got to be buried 40 me-
ters underground before I'm sat-
isfied," Maya said, laughing but
meaning it.
So it was a bit of surprise when
Maya told me recently that she
was a Labor Party voter and that
she wanted to give the West
Bank and Gaza Strip over to the
Palestinians. She didn't care
whether a Palestinian state came
out of it, as long as there was a
very high, very fortified wall put
up on the border between the
State of Palestine and the State
of Israel.
"I don't want to live with
them," she said. "We can't kick
them out, so let's give them the
territories and be rid of them."
Maya may be a little extreme
in her antipathy for Arabs, but
she expresses what seems to be

ers tried to convey was one of two
warring peoples finally reconcil-
ing, of good will, of soaring hopes
for a future together.
But Israelis, on the whole,
have soaring hopes for a future
apart.
As with my cousin Maya, it
doesn't necessarily follow that if
you don't like Arabs, you don't
like the peace process. Distrust
and hatred of Palestinians ac-
counts for a lot of the support the
Gaza-Jericho accord is receiving.
This same distrust and hatred,
however, has thrown a lot of
doubt into Israelis' minds over
whether the accord can work, es-
pecially in light of all the terror
attacks since last September.
After the Cairo signing, Dr.
Mina Tsemach, the country's
number one public opinion poll-
ster, found that 62 percent of Is-
raelis believed that chances for
peace were poor or non-existent,
while only 35 percent thought
they were good or excellent. Yet
the willingness on the part of Is-
raelis to pay the price for peace

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the dominant sentiment in Israel is there — if only to have the
today — let's give the Palestini- Palestinians out of their midst.
"I'm in favor of the peace
ans some land if they will then
leave us alone, not because they process, certainly; I'm ready to
deserve it and not because we like give up territories for peace, but
I don't know if it's possible be-
them, but because we don't.
And so there is quite a disso- cause the Arabs are not trust-
nance between the world's un- worthy; they don't stand by their
derstanding of what's taking word," said Rachel Shimoni, a
place in Gaza and Jericho, and jewelry store owner in Rishon
Lezion. "I don't know if the
the way it is understood here. At
Cairo — the fuss over Yassir Palestinians have any claim on
Arafat notwithstanding — the the land; I'm not interested in the
spirit that Arab and Israeli lead- politics of it. I want peace and qui-

