past weeks, popular backing for
the llamas and Islamic Jihad has
burgeoned in Gaza. And the rea-
son, in the words of Ha'aretz an-
alyst Danny Rubinstein, is "not
that the masses of Palestinians
have suddenly discovered the
gospel of Islam. What they've dis-
covered is the success of terror at-
tacks by Muslim fanatics, which
causes Israel pain."
Along with Israeli pain and
fury is the growing suspicion that
what the Palestinians want is
both to enjoy self-rule and con-
tinue to lash out against Israel.
Right or wrong, that perception
on the Israeli side left Mr. Rabin
on the horns of a dilemma.
"Choosing between peace with
Israel or peace with llamas" was
the way he put it. Specifically,
Mr. Rabin was faced with the
choice of halting the negotiations
until Mr. Arafat cracked down
convincingly on the Islamic op-
position or accelerating the talks
as a way of according Mr. Arafat
the credit he needs to win back
public support. Mr. Rabin opted
for the latter, though not with en-
thusiasm. "We don't have to run
amok in the talks with the Pales- ,
tinians," he told his ministers.
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Rabin's dilemma:
Choosing between
peace with Israel or
peace with Hamas.
The problem is that the talks
on the interim solution are the
most complex and sensitive stage
of the Israeli-Palestinian negoti-
ating process. And in using these
talks as the arena for shoring up
Mr. Arafat's position, Israel must
pick its way through a field
strewn with political land mines.
How fast, for example, will the
coming round of negotiations
have to proceed in order to stanch
the hemorrhaging support for the
PNA so that one minority gov-
ernment is negotiating with an-
other? How far will Israeli
concessions have to go on the
West Bank in order to quench the
Palestinian thirst for freedom
from foreign control? And above
all, especially if the wave of Is-
lamic terrorism continues, how
will the Rabin government be
able to reconcile its concessions
with the need to ensure the safe-
ty of the 130,000 Israeli settlers
on the West Bank?
Perhaps the greatest danger
at this sensitive juncture is that
all the lessons acknowledged over
the past months — from the sim-
ple fact that Israelis and Pales-
tinians are fated to share this
land to the need for patience and
goodwill to make a tolerable part-
nership work — will be swept
away in a tide of anger. What will
be left behind is the kind of
wreckage fanatics thrive on best:
despair. El
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