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Both are prospects that the
n Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu's Clinton administration (togeth-
recent return from his vis- er with the European Union,
it to the United States, he Egypt, Jordan and other mod-
was greeted by reports that he erate Arab states) is eager to
avoid.
had promised President
What Mr. Netanyahu
Bill Clinton not to start A Palestinian
construction on the first youth blocks a had less reason to expect
stage (2,000 out of a bulldozer on eras the potency of the de-
planned 6,500 units) of the West Bank. mands from his own coali-
tion to proceed with the
the new east Jerusalem
neighborhood of Har Homa. The construction.
Leading the assault was ex-
predictable storm of comment
and counter comment came Science Minister Benny Begin
(who resigned from the govern-
quickly.
It actually began brewing be- ment over the redeployment in
fore he left for the States, when Hebron). Aiming below the belt,
Mr. Netanyahu was urged to ap- Mr. Begin invoked the Likud's
prove the start of construction most aggressive, and effective,
election slogan ("Peres will di-
forthwith.
Wisely, he demurred. The last vide Jerusalem") in charging
thing he needed, before entering that "Bibi is dividing Jerusalem"
the Oval Office, was to publicly — already right now.
Parallel to Mr. Begin's attack
provoke the new Clinton admin-
istration. Then came word that came the formation of a group of
he had assured the president of 17 Knesset members from the
his intention to postpone the start coalition, which named itself the
of construction. Mr. Netanyahu "Eretz Yisroel Front" but was
denied this, saying that he did quickly dubbed "Force 17" (after
not go into "what will be built and
what will not be built." His denial
did not, however, address the key
question of "when" he would giVe
the green light for construction
to begin. Essentially, that
sparked the hullabaloo.
If he gives the go-ahead for
Har Homa or for the building of
Israeli housing in the heart of
the Palestinian neighborhood of
Ras el-Amud, two things might
happen:
* A replay of the riots that fol-
lowed the opening of the Has-
monean Tunnel last autumn.
* The prompt collapse of the
negotiations on the permanent
settlement, which just resumed
outside Jerusalem.
the PLO's most elite military
unit).
Led by Likud hard-liner
Michael Kleiner, they threat-
ened to retaliate against Mr. Ne-
tanyahu on the Har Homa issue
by absenting themselves from
key Knesset votes. This would
place the coalition in jeopardy.
Ferment was actively brew-
ing in the cabinet, as well. In ad-
dition to the two representatives
of the National Religious Party
(for whom continued settlement
throughout the West Bank, to
say nothing of Jerusalem prop-
er, is critical), ministers Ariel
Sharon of the Likud, Natan. Sha-
ransky of Yisrael Ba-Aliyah, and
Avigdor Kahalani of the Third