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"I don't want to be a prophet of
war," he says, "but in the absence
of a peace process, we find our-
selves with an anti-peace process.
It can include terrorism, boycott,
an arms race, and war itself"
We spoke during a week when
Binyamin Netanyahu's govern-
ment seemed under siege from the
opposition, the press at home, and
from European and Arab spokes-
men abroad. Even from Israel's
staunchest ally, the Clinton ad-
ministration. was groaning.
A key reason for this state of af-
fairs, as Mr. Peres sees it, is his
successor's inability to forge and
implement a cogent policy.
"A politician is measured on the
basis of his record," he said. "And
in the past half year [Netanyahu]
has made only one decision — to
open the Hasmonean Tunnel —
and it was a mistaken one."
There are only two ways of rem-
edying this situation, Mr. Peres
adds: by changing either the gov-
ernment or its policy. "Changing
the government means going to
elections" — of which there's lit-
tle chance. "Changing its policy
could be done by forming a na-
tional unity government."
While describing such a Likud-
Labor hybrid as "a mixed bless-
ing" that could lead to either to
action or paralysis, Mr. Peres
clearly favors it and gauges the
odds of forming a unity govern-
ment at 40 to 60 percent.
His own demands for bringing
Labor into the government are all
couched in terms of the peace
process: "implementing the Oslo
agreements in practice; reaching
an understanding on Israel's set-
tlement policy; starting talks with
the Palestinians on the perma-
nent settlements (with a referen-
dum on their results); and
resuming negotiations with Syr-
ia (with a referendum on their re-
sults).
To the key question of the ba-
sis on which the negotiations
with Syria would be renewed,
Mr. Peres replies firmly: "On the
principle of land for peace." But
to the question of whether he be-
lieves that Mr. Netanyahu and
his ministers will agree to that
principle, he retreats into a
shrug. 'Do I know what this gov-
ernment agrees to and doesn't
agree to?"
In a sense, its understandable
why the head of the opposition is
holding his cards so close to his
chest. Israel is awash with ru-
mors that Mr. Peres himself is
conducting private talks with the
Likud's Minister of National In-
frastructure Ariel Sharon both
on the make-up of a national uni-
ty government and on a map to
serve as its basis in the perma-
nent-settlement talks with the
Palestinians.
The map reportedly follows the
outline of the one proposed a few
years back by the then head of
the Jaffee Institute of Strategic

Studies at Tel Aviv University.

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