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Battling On
The Home Front

Binyamin Netanyahu has made some surprising
moves, and now he has to face his angry loyalists.

INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

inyamin Netanyahu made
international headlines
last week by shaking Yas-
sir Arafat's hand, but as a
result Israel's Prime Minister is
facing disdain from his own
ranks.
When he spoke to 3,000 mem-
bers of the Likud Party's Central
Committee last Thursday night,
47-year-old Marana Reichmann
stood up in the right flank of the
hall. Silently, she opened a
Chamberlain-like umbrella, hold-
ing it high for the length of the
speech.
"Of course he saw me," she
said afterwards. "That's why he
faced toward the left throughout
his address; he couldn't bare to
look me in the eye."
Mrs. Reichmann had decided
to make her silent protest the day
before, when she saw Mr. Ne-
tanyahu shake Mr. Arafat's
hand. "My parents were in con-
centration camps," she explained.
"Now it's going to happen all over
again."
Not all the members of the
Central Committee had quite so
drastic a vision. But the anger
seemed evident. Many jeered and
heckled Mr. Netanyahu. They
shouted "You're not being exact,"
when he spoke of his pre-election
commitment on how he would
meet with Mr. Arafat if it would
enhance Israel's security.
But even more than their de-
rision toward Mr. Netanyahu,
the Likud activists displayed —
long and loudly — admiration for
his sharpest critics: Ministers
Ariel Sharon and Benny Begin,
and Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee Chairman
Uzi Landau.

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They gave Mr. Sharon a stand-
ing ovation as he made em-
barked on a long, winding
procession from the upper bal-
cony to the stage. They clapped
rhythmically and chanted "Be-
gin! Begin!" when Benny Begin
arrived (so late that many as-
slimed that he was boycotting the
session). When Netanyahu loy-
alist Tsachi Hanegbi approached
Mr. Landau to tell him that his
time limit had expired, the crowd
angrily shouted "Leave him be!
Let him talk!"
"There were elections," Mr.
Landau had said earlier. "The
prime minister won. But the
Likud was defeated." And the
crowd roared its agreement.
The bitter attacks drove Mr.
Netanyahu to declare that every-
one who had joined his govern-
ment was aware of what its
policy on the peace process would
be. And if they didn't agree with
it, he added, "they shouldn't be
ministers.
"I'm not prepared to be
preached at," he snapped. "In the
battles for peace, just as in bat-
tles of war ... there's only one
commander." But his critics
would not be cowed. At one point
in Mr. Begin's speech, the audi-
ence was sure that he was going
to resign. "No! Don't do it!" they
wailed. 'We're with you!" But Mr.
Begin only threatened to leave if
the government kept, in his
mind, straying from its basic
guidelines by negotiating with
Mr. Arafat before he had fulfilled
every last clause of the Oslo bar-
gain — including the definitive
annulment of the Palestinian
Covenant.
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Binyamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Yassir Arafat at a checkpoint between Gaza
and Israel.

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