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The change'll do you good. ,„.., "V American Heart Association WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE mined not to let the Is- lamic fanatics blow him off course. The Israeli prime minister believes that he has created a historic opportu- nity to solve, once and for all, the century-long conflict with the Palestinians. "We will solve it," he insisted on Monday after a suicide bomber killed five Israelis and wounded 33 others, three criti- cally, on a crowded Tel Aviv bus. "If not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow." Yet every blow of this kind makes his — and Yassir Arafat's — task more intractable. Mr. Rabin was elected three years ago on a platform of "peace with security." His voters are less and less convinced that he is deliv- ering. And the more insecure they feel, the more they turn to the right-wing opposition and its telegenic, 46-year-old leader, Binyamin Netanyahu. Mr. Rabin stressed that he was suspending the peace nego- tiations only until after the fu- nerals of the bus victims. Israeli Jews are normally buried with- in 24 hours of their death. But Mina Zemach, Israel's leading political pollster, suspects that the public will not be so easily appeased. "My impression," she said, "is that the public will demand a longer suspension until Arafat shows them that he can control the situation. There is a real fear now. It's not ideology. And this bombing will definitely increase that fear." Even before the latest Pales- tinian martyr blew himself up on the No. 20 bus, Israelis were worried about the army's rede- ployment from West Bank Arab towns that was supposed to have been agreed upon by July 25. In a poll earlier this month, Ms. Zemach logged 64 percent as be- ing afraid that such an evacua- tion would increase the danger to their personal security and that of their families. In the best tradition of the army that he once commanded, Mr. Rabin believes in leading from the front. But he is at once dogged and cautious. He will persevere with the peace process, but he will not run so far ahead of public opinion that he loses touch with his troops. The cause is not yet lost. De- spite their anxieties, between 50 and 60 percent of Israelis want the process to continue. "They don't want it to stop," explained Ms. Zemach, "but they demand that Arafat control the terror- ists." Israelis have been ambivalent from the start. "My mind," con- fessed Daniel Stolpert, a Jerusalem psychologist, "was ex- tremely suspicious about the peace process. But at the same time I shared in the universal exhaustion with war and the messianic dream of peace. I was politically identified with the right, but emotionally hopeful that I was wrong. 'When my heart and mind ar- gue, I like my mind to win. But that doesn't mean my heart doesn't cry. I have become less and less hopeful and fantasize less and less about the dream of peace." On the left, Daniella Birgar, a 31-year-old waitress in a Jerusalem coffee bar, said she was for the peace, and remained so. "But it's harder," she agreed, "to be for it, the more time pass- es. It's easier for the opponents of the process to say, We told you so."' Most commentators argue, however, that it is too late to turn back. "The response to all the crises in the peace process," said Yaron Ezrahi, a political science professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "sug- gests that nobody has the pow- er to stop the process. When you have a major terrorist action, the only available remedy seems to be to continue the peace process — and progressively marginalize the extremists. The vitality of the peace process seems stronger than these dis- ruptive forces. But that does not mean that the peace process can- not be frozen from time to time, or that it cannot go into serious crises." Despite Mr. Rabin's tenacity, this may prove one of those crises. Even if the negotiations resume sooner rather than later, he can be expected to dri- ve a harder bargain. More than ever, he will have to satisfy Israeli voters that he is not cutting corners with their secu- rity, whether they live in West Bank settlements or in Israel- proper. The prime minister is more sensitive to the mood of the street than his visionary foreign minister, Shimon Peres. If he misjudges, the risk is, as the pollster Mina Zemach put it: "Lamas will decide who will be Israel's prime minister." ❑