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to Ayash.
But Mr. Arafat did not attend
the funeral. Two days after the
assassination, during a speech in
a devoutly Moslem village out-
side Hebron, he lauded Ayash
and criticized Israel for the
killing, but also spoke highly of
the late Yitzhak Rabin and re-
pledged his commitment to the
peace process.
"We have made the peace of
the brave," Mr. Arafat told the
crowd. "We are committed to it.
We ask the other side not to vio-
late this peace, [not] to come onto
Palestinian territory in Gaza and
assassinate the fighter, the mar-
tyr Yechi Ayash." He referred to
Rabin as "my peace partner."
Neither Mr. Arafa, nor any of
his lieutenants lashed out at Is-
rael. Their tone carried more re-
proach than anger. They made
no threats.
Journalist Ehud Ya'ari, one of
Israel's leading authorities on
Palestinian affairs, said Mr.
Arafat's aim was "to contain the
crisis ... and he's doing a re-
markable job." The PA chairman
was managing to placate Hamas
with gestures while at the same
time signaling Israel that he was
still their partner, Mr. Ya'ari said.
The Ayash funeral was the
clearest sign of Arafat's control
of the situation — as massive and
wrathful as the crowd was, Pales-
tinian policemen kept it in line.
The question was, "Why now?"
There had been no fatal terror at-
tacks against Israelis since Aug.
21, when an Islamic suicide
bomber — outfitted by Ayash —
killed seven people on a
Jerusalem bus. Hamas had
agreed to the PA's demand to sus-
pend attacks at least intil the Is-
raeli army's withdrawal from the
West Bank was completed. The
Palestinian election campaign
had begun smoothly; Arafat and
his people appeared headed for
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he Oslo peace process has
weathered many blows,
particularly nearly two
years of terror attacks
against Israelis. The assassina-
tion in Gaza of "The Engineer,"
Yechi Ayash, who mastermind-
ed the worst of those anti-Israeli
attacks, was the latest blow. It
appears that the peace process
would weather this too.
On the surface, the reaction
from the Palestinians was alarm-
ing. There had never been a fu-
neral in Gaza as large as Mr.
Ayash's; the crowd was estimat-
ed at 300,000. Tens of thousands
more turned out for rallies in Mr.
Ayash's memory throughout the
West Bank. Islamic gunmen fired
their AK-47 automatic rifles into
the air. Israeli flags were burned.
Enraged Hamas leaders
promised revenge, and the mass-
es roared their approval.
Numerous Palestinian Au-
thority offficials attended the fu-
neral and memorial rallies.
Unanimously they condemned
the assassination— presumably
carried out by the Shin Bet —
saying it was the worst possible
move at the worst possible time.
"I know you [Israelis] are hap-
py about this — you've taken re-
venge and gotten even withYechi
Ayash. But this won't solve your
problems and it won't solve our
problems. Don't you realize this
act will create ten or 20 more peo-
ple like Yechi Ayash?" argued Su-
fiyan Abu Zaideh, head of the
PA's "Israel Desk."
Looking properly sorrowful,
Yassir Arafat paid a condolence
call on Hamas leader Dr. Mali-
moud A-Zahar. The PA chairman
ordered his Fatah supporters to
observe the three-day strike
called by Hamas. Palestinian po-
lice joined Hamas enforcers in the
manhunt for a suspected Pales-
tinian collaborator who they be-
lieve gave the fatal cellular phone
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