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ipartisanship has come, "no Jewish settlement will be up-
kicking and screaming, to rooted." Most of the settlements
Israeli politics. A panel of would be annexed to Israel with
Likud and Labor legislators territorial continuity. The rest
this week published a joint blue- would come under Palestinian
print for a permanent arrange- rule, but, the still-hawkish Mr. Ei-
ment with the Palestinians.
tan pledged, "we'll do our utmost
The question, as critics from to protect their linkage to Israel."
right and left reminded them, re-
The Likud and Labor MKs
mains whether the Palestinians agreed to disagree on two major
will buy it. At best, so far, the pan- points: a Palestinian state and
el has made peace between prag- the future of the Jewish settle-
matic Jews. Even that is no mean ments along the Jordan valley.
achievement.
Likud participants favored an
The group of six Knesset mem- "enlarged autonomy" for the
bers from each party met for 14 Palestinians; their Labor inter-
weeks at the Israel Democracy In- locutors were ready to live with
stitute, a Jerusalem think tank a Palestinian state. Likud saw
that is funded in part by the At- the Jordan valley as part of sov-
lanta Jewish Federation. The doc- ereign Israel, Labor only as a
ument is not binding on either "special security zone."
political party. Yet, it is certain to
Mr. Beilin is no stranger to
serve as a framework for a poten- backstage maneuvering. As a
tial national unity government.
minister in the last government,
The co-chairmen were Michael he reached an understanding on
Eitan, the Likud caucus head, and a final peace framework with
Yossi Beilin, an architect of the Yassir Arafat's deputy, Mah-
Oslo accords and a candidate to moud Abbas (known as Abu
succeed Shimon Peres as Labor Mazen). He said the Likud-La-
leader. (Labor's Ehud Barak is bor proposal "does not contradict
widely expected to win the party's the Beilin-Abu Mazen paper."
June contest.)
Although the parties dis-
As one of the Labor signatories, tanced themselves from the Ei-
former Interior Minister Haim Ra- tan-Beilin document, Mr. Beilin
mon, put it, both sides came to hailed it. "We found a common
terms with unpalatable realities. denominator," he said, "and it
The Likud people accepted that was not the lowest common de ;
the 1993 Oslo agreement with the nominator of saying, 'no, no, no.
Palestinians was a fact of life. For
the first time, they endorsed the
However, three of the six Labor
idea of a border separating Jews panel members and one from
and Arabs in the Land of Israel.
Likud declined to sign. Eliezer
The Labor people, Mr. Ramon Zandberg, parliamentary chair-
added with a sour smile, recog- man of the Tsomet faction, which
nized that Likud won the last elec- ran with Likud in the last elec-
tion.
tions, did sign. Then he was in-
The key Labor concession was, stantly repudiated by his leader,
as Mr. Eitan spelled it out, that Rafael Eitan.