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n Israel, partisan forces are predecessors, and that he will be
still slugging it out over even tougher on security issues
whether Prime Minister when the additional West Bank
Binyamin Netanyahu won redeployments are worked out.
better terms on Hebron and be-
Whether hard analysis or
yond than did his predecessors. wishful thinking, that per-
In the end, only time will
ception will keep many
Armed Jewish pro-Israel hard-liners
tell.
settlers walk
But what's evident now
from complaining about
is that Mr. Netanyahu's from the Tomb of Mr. Netanyahu's new
successful conclusion of a the Patriarchs in commitment to the peace
Hebron to their
"Hebron Plus" agreement,
process.
settlement of
which commits Israel to
Groups further to the
Kiryat Arba.
land-for-peace negotia-
right have treated Mr.
tions, has altered the political Netanyahu's decision on Hebron
landscape for American Jewish as a betrayal. For organizations
groups on both sides of the peace such as Americans for a Safe Is-
process debate.
rael, vocal opposition is consis-
Both hawks and doves will tent with their nationalist
have some treacherous territory ideology — but even leaders of
to traverse in the weeks and these groups concede that they
months ahead. Both risk being are unlikely to sway more main-
cut off from the American Jew- stream right-wing forces, unless
ish center, which supports the there is a resumption of wide-
peace process even as it edges spread Palestinian violence.
away from active, passionate in-
The "middle right," they con-
volvement in the pro-Israel cause. cede, will continue to see Mr.
The problem for the right is Netanyahu as Israel's best hope,
that even groups that abhor the and they will be unwilling to risk
idea of turning over Hebron to their good relations with the
the Palestinians, and who fear Jerusalem government by criti-
the results of the additional West cizing the agreement.
Bank redeployments promised
Mr. Netanyahu's decision to
by the agreement, will be reluc- stick with Oslo undercuts the po-
tant to break with Mr. Ne- sition of groups such as the Zion-
tanyahu, a man they once saw as ist Organization of America,
the antidote to suicidal agree- whose relentless criticism of the
ments with the Palestinians.
Labor government's willingness
Part of that is political realism. to overlook Yassir Arafat's faults
With the Israeli center still will lose some power by virtue of
committed to Oslo and a growing Mr. Netanyahu's tentative em-
proportion of the electorate up- brace of the Palestinian leader.
set by what they see as the ex- It also will further marginalize
cesses of the religious-nationalist and isolate groups on the far
camp, political realists accept right, who will be alone in their
that if Mr. Netanyahu falls, the cries of betrayal.
only likely alternative is a left-
The Hebron agreement, and
leaning government.
what it signals about Mr. Ne-
Some have made the argu- tanyahu's commitment to the
ment that Mr. Netanyahu did Oslo process, will quiet right-wing
achieve a significantly better forces in the major pro-Israel um-
agreement on Hebron than his brella and lobbying groups. The