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NAME DAYTIME TELEPHONE ADDRESS CITY STATE CHARGE CARD ACCOUNT NUMBER ZIP ❑ VISA . - - - I MASTERCARD SIGNATURE DATE .,c\71-7..?,,.., \ --Y -%-. --Q no , ..—,„c, ,,,;,,_ :7 -Tri ,,,,„, EXPIRATION DATE a 6:.• Mail to: Hadassah, Perpetual Yahrzeit Program Administrator 50 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019 or call: 212-303-8195 COLLEGE BOUND SPACE DEADLINE GRADUATION caps, ;L_ gowns and more will IS lead the class down MAY 9 .\\\\ the aisle of our annual College Bound special \ section on Friday May CALL YOUR 16, 1997. EXECUTIVE Don't miss the mark to TODAY send your message to 810.354.6060 our 50,000 readers! 40. at. two weeks ago, Arafat gave the Territorial possession was nine green light to a resumption of ter- parts of the law. All the Pales- tinians had was the uprising or rorist attacks against Israel." Ben-Ishai, one of the best con- Intifada, a ragged, grassroots re- nected of Israeli defense writers, bellion that denied Israel the plea- added that this information had sure of enjoying its assets. Most recently, Arafat felt hu- been passed on to both the Israeli Cabinet and the United States. miliated by Israel's unilateral de- Mr. Arafat, his sources estimat- cision to build homes for 6,500 ed, was "pushing Israel into a Jewish families on Har Homa, a Jerusalem hillside captured from deal." At a news conference two days the Jordanians in the 1967 war. after the Tel Aviv atrocity, the di- Then there were the "take-it-or- rector of military intelligence, Ma- leave-it" terms offered for the next jor General Moshe Ya'alon, phase of West Bank redeploy- complained, "The terrorist orga- ment. Last September, when Mr. nizations still have a green light to carry out attacks, and they un- Netanyahu opened a controver- derstand it was given by Mr. Arafat. For several days now, Palestinian security services have not been cooperating with Is- raeli security services regarding the preven- tion of terrorism. They are conditioning this on progress on the political front." Ahmed Tibi, Mr. Arafat's Israeli Arab adviser, denied that he had indeed given a green light. In Wash- ington, Secretary of State Madeleine Al- bright also said there was no proof, adding that the Palestinian leader was making "a 100 percent effort to fight terror." Police and workers examine the debris after an Israeli professionals explosion set by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv. are convinced that their Palestinian counterparts — sial tunnel near Muslim holy hard-nosed veterans like Amin el- sites in old Jerusalem, Mr. Arafat Hindi, Muhammad Dahlan and tested a new weapon in his ar- Jibril Rajoub — are capable of mory — the 30,000 armed Pales- reining in the bombers and the tinian police deployed in the gunmen. With arrests, threats West Bank and Gaza Strip since and a systematic offensive to he came home in 1994. In pitched weaken Hamas influence in the battles that cost more than 75 Is- mosques and the schools, they raeli and Palestinian lives, he had kept the terrorists quiet for showed the Israelis that they no the past year. At the same time, longer had a monopoly of they shared information and co- firearms. The trauma of the Sep- ordinated tactics with Israel's tember fighting shocked a reluc- Shin Bet internal security service. tant Netanyahu into negotiating For Israel, such cooperation seriously about Hebron, where had become an increasing neces- his troops finally redeployed in sity with each redeployment from January. Recently, by easing up the Arab towns and villages of the on Hamas, Mr. Arafat has again West Bank and Gaza Strip. The played the trump card of vio- Shin Bet's network of informers lence. has dried up, or been burned. Is- After bulldozers started digging rael \no longer has the sticks and on Har Homa, a senior American carrots of licenses and permits for diplomat was asked by the trade, construction, vehicles and Jerusalem Post what message it foreign travel that were part of delivered to the Palestinians. He everyday life under the occupa- replied, "Screw you!" Mr. Arafat's tion. message to Mr. Netanyahu This does not mean that the sounds ominously similar. Shin Bet has given up trying. It is not the best of foundations Today, the Israelis still need the for another diplomatic salvage cooperation of Palestinian in- mission. But since neither side telligence, but they now know wants to go back, the attempt will that it will not come free. be made. Arafat knows that he has ne- Eventually, Netanyahu and gotiated from weakness ever since Arafat will talk, but without the the secret Oslo talks in 1992-93. warmth, trust and goodwill cru- Israel dominated the Palestini- cial to the complex negotiating ans militarily and economically. process. El ' ACCOUNT 4 • PHOTO BY AP/SHARON ABADY H