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Agreement At Last
With the Hebron accord, Binyamin Netanyahu has
cemented the partition of the Land of Israel.
ERIC SILVER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
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even months after
Binyamin Netanyahu's
right-wing coalition came
to power, the Israeli-Pales-
tinian peace process is back on
its wobbly course.
Mr. Netanyahu and Palestin-
ian leader Yassir Arafat cleared
the remaining obstacles to an Is-
raeli redeployment from most of
Hebron, the last of eight West
Bank cities under occupation.
They also endorsed what the
tireless U.S. mediator, Dennis
Ross, termed a road map for fur-
ther stages of the 1993 Oslo ac-
cords. Israel will begin to pull out
of West Bank rural areas in
March and complete a three-part
withdrawal in mid-1998.
claves, will remain under Israeli
military rule.
Netanyahu's position: The
prime minister claimed that he
had improved on the previous
government's terms for protect-
ing the settlers by creating buffer
zones between Jews and Arabs
and by limiting the range of the
weapons the Palestinian police
will be allowed to carry near the
settlers.
Restrictions will also be im-
posed on the height of new Arab
construction on the hills over-
looking them to reduce the temp-
tations of sniper fire.
The opposition's position:
Labor ex-ministers contend that
the changes are merely cosmet-
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AP/GREG MARINO VICH
NOW THROUGH
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26
Members of the Palestinian Preventative Security Police are deployed in Hebron.
This represents a compromise
between the September 1997
deadline agreed by the previous
Labor government and demand-
ed by Mr. Arafat, and the May
1999 target date offered by Mr.
Netanyahu. What is important
for the Palestinians is that the
prime minister has locked him-
self into a timetable.
An embattled Mr. Netanyahu
won a narrow majority for the
new agreement in his 18-mem-
ber Cabinet, but he faced stiff re-
sistance in the Knesset from his
coalition partners.
The evacuation from 80-85
percent of the disputed holy city,
where 450 fanatical Jewish set-
tlers live among 150,000 equally
zealous Muslims, is expected over
the weekend. Four hundred
Palestinian police will be de-
ployed there for the first time. Be-
tween 15,000 and 20,000 Arabs,
who live close to the Jewish en-
ic, as is Mr. Arafat's reaffirma-
tion of his commitment to fight
Palestinian terrorism, extradite
fugitives suspected of murdering
Israelis, and repeal clauses of the
1964 Palestinian National
Covenant which call for the de-
struction of the Zionist state.
The settlers' position: The
Hebron settlers do not delude
themselves that the lion will now
lie down with the lamb. Their
spokesman, Noam Arnon, said
defiantly: "We are armed and we
are staying." For him, the Pales-
tinians' long-term objective was
still to drive the Jews out of the
city, and Mr. Arafat's police were
nothing more than licensed ter-
rorists.
In any case, the new agree-
ment is a landmark in the cen-
tury-long conflict between Jewish
and Palestinian Arab national-
ism. An elected leader of the Zion-
ist right has laid to rest the