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here was no objective rea-
son why Israel and the
Palestinians had to reach
agreement on the rede-
ployment of Israeli troops from
Hebron early this week. But that
didn't stop the accusations from
flying and the pundits from pon-
tificating.
Yes, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole
would like to have known one way
or the other before the Nov. 5 U.S.
presidential election. Yes, Yas-
sir Arafat was leaving on the fate-
ful Monday to shake the hands of
the kings and presidents of Eu-
rope and stay abroad most of the
week.
But despite the late-night
phone calls from Mr. Clinton and
King Hussein of Jordan, the last
exasperated shuttle by the Amer-
ican mediator, Dennis Ross, the
Palestinian president and
Binyamin Netanyahu failed to tie
up the loose ends. Mr. Arafat flew
off to Norway, Mr. Ross for Wash-
ington.
The failure to agree on the se-
curity arrangements for the 450
Jewish militants living in the
heart of the last West Bank city
still under occupation was dan-
gerous not because of a deadline
missed, but because every addi-
tional day makes it harder for the
Likud Prime Minister to deliver.
The carnage precipitated in
September by Israel's opening of
an archaeological tunnel along-
side the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem only strengthened Mr.
Arafat's hand in the Hebron ne-
gotiations. He exploited it to dri-
ve as hard a bargain as possible.
He may also have been making
Mr. Netanyahu sweat in revenge
for his months of humiliation.
Armchair pundits suspected
that Mr. Arafat was playing for
time in the hope that a re-elected
President Clinton would take the
gloves off and impose a pro-Pales-
tinian solution. If so, he was play-
ing with fire.
The protracted negotiations
have given the settlers time to mo-
bilize opposition to a Hebron re-
deployment, a euphemism for
military withdrawal from 85 per-
cent of the city, and to buy up an
arsenal of automatic rifles and
hand grenades from the Israeli
underworld. Their 150,000 Arab
neighbors are smuggling in
weapons too.
The settlers' Channel Seven ra-
dio station is constantly exhort-
ing Mr. Netanyahu not to "reward
the murderers." The chances of
an orderly transition from Israeli
to Palestinian rule are diminish-
ing daily.
Likud and National Religious
Party ministers, spearheaded by
Benny Begin and Ariel Sharon,
are distancing themselves from
their leader. Mr. Begin, who has
not swallowed the Oslo agree-
ments, told a local television in-
terviewer: "Arafat is still the
enemy, the PLO is still the ene-
my."
Right-wing Knesset back-
benchers, led by Uzi Landau, the
hardline chairman of the foreign
affairs and defense committee, are
bracing to revolt. Hanan Porat, a
founder of the Gush Emunim set-
tlement campaign, is rallying his
NRP parliamentary colleagues.
Even the prime minister's
brother-in-law resigned from the
Likud and moved in a blaze of
publicity to the Jewish quarter of
Hebron. Hagai Ben-Artzi, an Or-
thodox Jew who lobbied national
religious rabbis to support Mr.
Netanyahu's election, accused
him of "totally betraying his com-
mitment to the voter" even before
a deal was sealed.
Mr. Ben-Artzi, who left his
home in the Beth El settlement,
north of Jerusalem, for Hebron's
Avraham Avinu complex, said he
had set himself the goal of thwart-
ing "the treacherous act which a
Jewish
Government is about to per-
petrate in Hebron." If it was nec-
essary to overthrow the
Government, he told the tabloid
daily Ma'ariv, he would take part
in it.
Settlement leaders from He-
bron and its Jewish satellite sub-
urb of Kiryat Arba were
unappeased by briefings on the
proposed agreement by Mr. Ne-
tanyahu and his military com-
manders. Moshe Levinger, the
charismatic rabbi who led the
first settlement band there in
1968, told Major-General Oren
Shahor, the Government's West
Bank coordinator:
"This agreement strangles us.
Baruch Goldstein and Yigal Amir
did what they did because they
felt strangled. We maintained re-
straint for years among the He-
bron settlers, but I cannot
promise you that we will be able
to control our public in the fu-
ture."
Lest we forget, Baruch Gold-
stein, an American-born settler
physician, gunned down 29 Mus-
lims at prayer in the Cave of the
Patriarchs mosque in February,
1994; Yigal Amir assassinated
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
exactly a year ago. The embers
that fanned their flames of fury
seem to not have diminished. [1]