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ometimes you want to go could do the same thing; but, for
up to Israelis and rap your domestic political reasons, he
knuckles on their skulls feels compelled to make a big
and shout, "Anybody show of his commitment to
home?" A week in December pro- Judea and Samaria.
The really clever thing would
vided such a time.
On the 13th, Prime Minister have been to announce financial
Binyamin Netanyahu announced incentives for Jews to leave the
plans to offer financial incentiies territories. Sure, it would have
for Jews to move to Judea and caused an uproar on the right,
Samaria. Then he and his col- but the policy would have
leagues acted genuinely shocked achieved a number of objectives.
and hurt when the president First, it would have led many
Jews to return to homes inside
publicly criticized the move.
The rebuke was about as mild the Green Line and made the fu-
as it could have been; still, it was ture problem of defending them
the first time Mr. Clinton ever a little easier. Second, it would
made such a public statement. have sent the strongest possible
Now Israel's best friend in the message to the Palestinians and,
world is angry. For those who are more important, the United
States, that Israel was commit-
diplomatically impaired, let me
ted to advancing the peace
say this as succinctly as possible:
Americans hate settlements.
process.
All right, not
every American
hates settlements,
but most of the
ones who count do.
Israelis can dis-
count the letter
from former gov-
ernment officials
because they were
all anti-Israel any-
way (never mind
Lawrence Eagle-
burger was also a
great friend), but
they should realize
their sentiments
are widely shared.
The settlement
issue is really less
about policy than
perception, espe- A barbed wire fence encloses a military camp that insures
cially at this point. Israelis can live in the settlements.
Enemies of Israel
Then Mr. Netanyahu could
(and some friends) have been re-
peating the mantra that settle- have quietly winked at some set-
ments are an obstacle to peace tlement expansion.
Instead, Israel has sacrificed
so long they've been oblivious to
the reality that the Palestinians its image as peacemaker. That
negotiated an agreement despite is why Mr. Arafat escapes blame
them. In fact, the evidence is for foot-dragging on the Hebron
that building settlements was redeployment and for the Pales-
the stimulus to peace. The Likud tinian Authority's violations of
building campaign of the 1980s the Oslo accords. The Israeli
forced the Palestinians to see government doesn't understand
that time was not on their side. that the world has two eyes, one
The fear of having no land left for the Palestinians and one for
for a state forced PLO leader the Israelis.
Israel could reap a lot of ben-
Yassir Arafat to accept Oslo.
However, now that Israel has efits in the next four years from
reached an agreement with the a friendly Bill Clinton. Mr. Ne-
Palestinians, new settlement ac- tanyahu should consider a ges-
tivity only complicates the ne- ture in the future with that in
gotiations and turns the world mind. ❑
against Israel. Yitzhak Rabin
was able to increase the number
of Jews in the territories by do-
ing it quietly and gradually, in Mitchell G. Bard is a foreign
the context of advancing the policy analyst in Washington.
peace process. Mr. Netanyahu

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