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complete, sovereign capital of Is-
rael. We can compromise on
everything for peace, and we need
peace badly, but we can't com-
promise on Jerusalem."
And Karen Be'eri, 19, a soldier
from the Negev town of Arad,
said, "First of all, I'm in favor of
the Palestinians having a Pales-
tinian state. But Jerusalem is a
problem. All of it must remain
ours. If we give up part of east
Jerusalem to the Palestinians,
then Christians can come and
claim a part for themselves. It's
a question of who is in control,
and I think it has to be us."
In interviews at Ben-Gurion
Airport and Tel Aviv's central bus
station with about a dozen "av-
erage" non-Jerusalemites, all but
a handful said Jerusalem couldn't
be touched. Most favored the
peace process and certain other
territorial concessions, certainly
in Gaza. The only two who fa-
vored giving the Palestinians a
piece of Arab East Jerusalem ac-
knowledged that this was a mar-
ginal view in Israel.
"When you bring up
Jerusalem, people get all shook
up and react with their emotions,
not their intellect. But if you ask
them if they ever take their fam-
ilies to the Arab side of
Jerusalem, they say 'No," said
Yehoshua Weinpress, 43, a
Transport Ministry employee
from Ramat Gan, which borders
on Tel Aviv.
"A Palestinian state doesn't
worry me, and as far as
Jerusalem goes," he continued,
"I'm sure they'll arrive at some
arrangement."
Professor Ephraim Inbar, di-
rector of the BESA Center at Bar-
Ilan University, said that in his
studies of Israeli political atti-
tudes, he no longer asks about
Jerusalem because year after
year, "over 90 percent favor
Jerusalem remaining undivided
under Israeli sovereignty. Most
Israelis are quite adamant on
this, and take the most hawkish
position possible."
The fact that Israelis stay
away from Arab east Jerusalem
has no bearing on their feelings,
Professor Inbar added.
"The issue," he said, "is not
Sheikh Jarrah [an Arab neigh-
borhood] or Orient House or the
American Colony Hotel. For
Jews, east Jerusalem is the Tem-
ple Mount, the Western Wall, the
Jewish Quarter — the symbolic
heart of Jerusalem."
Dr. Daniel Elazar, head of the
Jerusalem Center for Public Af-
fairs, agreed that, for now, Is-
raelis see Jerusalem as the
capital for one state — only. But
he is worried that the self-cen-
tered, "hedonistic" trend in the
country, especially in Tel Aviv
and the richer coastal cities, could
erode this consensus.
And, he maintained, the fear
that keeps many Israelis away
from the capital and nearly all of
them out of the Arab sector, even-
tually could affect their politics.
"If Israelis don't come to
Jerusalem and make Jerusalem
a part of their lives," he said, "who
knows what they could be per-
suaded of in the future?" ❑
Hezbollah Attacks
During Pact Signing
Tel Aviv (JTA) — An Israeli of-
ficer was killed and 14 other of-
ficers and soldiers injured during
a daylong series of attacks by
Hezbollah gunmen in the south-
ern Lebanon security zone.
The attacks, by artillery, mor-
tars and both Sagger and
Katyusha rockets, were appar-
ently timed to coincide with the
accord signing in Washington by
Jordanian King Hussein and
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The attacks also took place on
the first anniversary of the start
of Operation Accountability, Is-
rael's weeklong shelling of ter-
rorist bases in southern Lebanon
in retaliation for rocket attacks
on northern Israel.
The shelling, directed at 16 po-
sitions occupied by Israeli troops
or their allied South Lebanon
Army, began gradually after
12:00 noon and peaked at 5 p.m.
local time, when King Hussein,
Mr. Rabin and President Clinton
were signing the document on the
White House lawn.
At that moment, the pro-Iran-
ian terrorists fired a series of mis-
siles at an IDF convoy, killing
Capt. Shai Goldstein of Hadera
and wounding most of the other
casualties.
Other soldiers were wounded
by shots fired at their field posi-
tions.
In response to the attacks, the
Israeli air force went into action,
bombing a number of Hezbollah
positions north of the security
zone.
Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai,
commander of the northern re-
gion, said he had no reason to be-
lieve that the Syrians, who
largely control Lebanon, had en-
couraged the attacks.
But he said Syria was un-
doubtedly capable of stopping
them if it so wished.
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