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erusalem, it's not a secret,
is a very complicated city,"
says Col. Ori Ben-Yehuda,
who heads the Jerusalem
Brigade of the Israel Defense
Forces.
That feeling was emphasized
recently by the political hulla-
baloo over Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu's decision
to build 6,500 apartment units
for Jews in Har Homa, a neigh-
borhood in the heavily Arab east-
ern part of Jerusalem, as well as
3,000 units for Arabs.
But Israelis are not only de-
flecting criticism and opposition
from their Arab neighbors. As
Col. Ben-Yehuda sees it, there is
equally as much opposition from
the harediin, or ultra-religious
Jews, who fill the streets of Is-
rael's capital city.
"In my opinion, some of them
are more radical than the Pales-
tinians," he says, speaking as a
civilian and not on behalf of the
IDF.
'e have here in Jerusalem,
day-by-day, incidents that take
place. They don't want us to stay.
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Chairman Arafat says all the
time that he sees Jerusalem as
the capital of the Palestinian
country. And it's my opinion that
it won't end with Jerusalem,"
says Col. Ben-Yehuda.
It's not a question of whether
or not there will be peace on the
streets of Jerusalem, he says.
"There is no question that right
now there is no peace. It's not the
situation in the Middle East, at
least in this century.
"We may sit today and make
peace talks, it doesn't matter with
whom, and tomorrow we will for-
get. I believe it's going to take
many years before real peace.
That's one of the reasons I serve
in the army for the past 21 years.
Just ask my wife and kids."
The mood in Jerusalem is like
the weather, says Col. Ben-
Yehuda: "One day it's like this,
one day like that. All situations
which connect to the building of
Jerusalem may change the
mood of the city from day to day,
on both sides — Arab and Is-
raeli."
Is Oslo Dead?
Expect the push for 'final status' negotiations to
become even stronger.
INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
erusalem — Yassir Arafat
got Binyamin Netanyahu's
attention two weeks ago.
He got the world's atten-
tion, too.
Mr. Arafat's incitement to riot
after the opening of the Has-
monean Tunnel was his first stab
at lowering a boom on the new Is-
raeli government. It caused the
death of 15 Israelis and more 80
Palestinians, and it failed to
achieve its goal: the tunnel re-
mained open.
For more than a year, Mr.
Arafat did "follow instructions"
by honoring the most important
aspect of his complex deal with
Israel: suppressing fundamen-
talist terror.
The result, before the explo-
sion in the Apropos Restaurant,
was that the peace process had
come to a standstill.
After the Tel Aviv bombing, it
is a shambles.
Right now there's not even a
hope of any dialogue, since Mr.
Arafat has gone off on a tour,
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while Israel remains braced for
further bombings. Worse yet, if
he gave the "green light" for ter-
ror actions (as Israel's security
maintain), he merely managed
to push Mr. Netanyahu into a
corner.
One of Israel's options is to let
the process remained stalled.
The conventional wisdom,
however, is that the process will
move in one direction or anoth-
er. If there's no progress toward
peace, there will be a steady de-
terioration into violence.
For the Palestinians, Oslo is a
bird in the hand, an internation-
ally backed formula that requires
Israel to keep withdrawing from
the West Bank and on specified
dates. Why should they agree to
abandon it?
So that leaves Oslo, the five-
year process designed to build
trust and a partnership based on
common interests. Almost three-
fifths of that period have passed,
and never have these goals
seemed more remote. E]