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"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. j 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, 1611 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]