9 Month CD

On this reading, the suicide
bombings, which killed 61 Is-
raelis, foreign workers and ex-
change students, simply brought
the campaign down to reality
sooner than expected. What the
latest polls suggest is that Hamas
has not yet won the election for
Netanyahu.
The public reaction to the car-
nage in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and
Ashkelon was more sober than
hysterical. An overwhelming ma-
jority of voters who supported the
peace process — and Mr. Peres as
its champion — still insisted that
there was no viable alternative,
while its critics could only say:
"We told you so."
The Prime Minister has earned
his chance of a comeback. He has
shown himself a cool, skilled and
resourceful fighter. His friends
say we should not have been sur-
prised.
"Nothing came easy to Peres in
his long career," explains Nimrod
Novik, a long-time political ad-
viser, now in private business.
"He had to fight his way through,
both in moving up the leadership
ladder and in fighting for things
he believed in. He is battle-test-
ed for more than five decades."
Ever since the first bombing on
Feb. 25, Mr. Peres has been walk-
ing a tightrope. On the one hand,
he had to talk and act tough to re-
assure Israelis that their person-
al security was in safe hands. On
the other, he did not want to de-
stroy the peace process by break-
ing the Oslo agreement or
humiliating the Palestinian
leader, Yassir Arafat.
He has not yet fallen off,
though the Palestinians accuse
him of collective punishment and
dictating terms. He rejected de-
mands from cabinet colleagues to
send the army back into the ma-
jor West Bank and Gaza Strip
towns, now totally under Pales-
tinian self-rule.
But he let his troops loose in
the villages, where Israel still has
freedom of operation under the
Oslo II agreement.
The border between Israel and
the Palestinian territories re-
mains closed to Palestinian work-
/\D ers, but Israel is now allowing
food supplies into Gaza and ex-
ports out under Israeli military
escort. Hamas activists have been
arrested wholesale. The homes of
terrorists have been sealed or de-
molished. Mr. Arafat ha _ s been
spurred to crack down on the
Muslim fanatics under his juris-
diction. The closure is expected to
last until after the Israeli elec-
tions, and the evacuation of most
of Hebron has been postponed.
This time, the Palestinians are
not dancing in the streets. Israelis
are seeing and feeling results.
Mr. Peres's calibrated response
mobilized Mr. Clinton to his side.
The American Administration
has its own stake in Middle East

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