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Rhetorical Edginess
The right-wing has sharpened the peace process
debate by honing the language of security.
JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
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n the public policy wars, lan-
guage can be a kind of super-
weapon, a lesson anti-abortion
activists have put to effective
use in recent years.
As the Middle East peace
process continues to produce both
progress and controversy, oppo-
nents of the Rabin government's
policies have retained the rhetor-
ical edge. The right has controlled
the language of the debate, and
the left has largely forfeited the
game.
The result has been an imbal-
ance in public discussions of the
peace process that could affect
peacemaking — however risky
— is the only viable route to long-
term security for a Jewish nation
that has known more than its
share of insecurity in the past
half-century.
Peace process supporters have
likewise failed to point to the ob-
vious weakness of a right-wing
position that correctly highlights
the risks of the peace process, but
fails to acknowledge the severe
dangers that would accompany
any attempt to return to the pre-
Madrid status quo.
In fact, Israel was then in the
grips of a violent and intensify-
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U.S. policy at a time when those
negotiations require a strong and
steady hand in Washington.
The most obvious success of
the right involves its appropria-
tion of the language of security.
In the same way that anti-
choice activists have reshaped the
debate over abortion by claiming
the "pro-life" label, opponents of
the Israeli government's peace
policies have redefined the term
"security" to reflect their belief
that territorial concessions to the
Arabs, by definition, jeopardize
Israel's security, and that a re-
versal of the current peace
process would inevitably dimin-
ish security woes.
Peace process foes have done
a good job of exploiting the all-
too-routine images of Israeli vic-
tims of Palestinian terror;
supporters of the negotiations
have been ineffective in putting
that terrorism into perspective,
or in making their case that
ing Palestinian rebellion that de-
fied the best efforts of Israel's
capable police and military forces.
That status quo was anything
but "secure" for Israel's citizens.
In any event, it is clearly impos-
sible to return to even that pre-
carious status, now that the
Palestinian autonomy process
has raised expectations.
Peace process opponents have
an inherently easier time ex-
ploiting the language of security
because of the emotional hooks
they use to make their point —
the bombed-out buses and horri-
fying images of bodies strewn
over Israeli streets.
Terrorism is tangible, some-
thing we can see on the nightly
news with disturbing fre-
quency; peace, with its promise
of a more secure Israel in the far-
off future, lacks that immediacy.
But there is a strong security
argument to be made in favor of
continuing this imperfect peace