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sure the Israelis," said Sa'eb Er-
akat, a senior Palestinian nego-
tiator. "We don't have the
Jewish lobby, or their support
in Congress. But we're not talk-
ing about pro-Israeli or pro-
Palestinian, we're talking about
pro-peace."
But the Palestinian criteria
for resuming negotiations re-
main uncompromising. "Israel,"
Erakat insisted, "must cease all
unilateral acts, especially Har
Homa and other settlement ac-
tivity ... We're saying all dis-
putes must be settled through
negotiations, rather than set-
tling the issue by settlements.
Netanyahu can't have peace and
settlements."

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on
Sunday, May 18, 1997
6:30 p.m.
B'Nai David Synagogue

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He is host of "Money Talk" on radio station WXYT
He writes a daily column for the Detroit News and
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He has given them a strength
they wouldn't have achieved in
50 years of political and social
activism."
The polls bear out a shift in
attitude. The Center for Pales-
tine Research and Studies,
based in the West Bank city of
Nablus, logged support for the
peace process down from 73 per-
cent in March to 60 percent in
April — its lowest point since
the spring of 1994, when Baruch
Goldstein, a Jewish settler,
massacred 29 Muslim worship-
pers in a Hebron mosque.
At the same time, the poll-
sters found that support for sui-
cide attacks against Israelis is
up to 40 percent, almost double

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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE

A Palestinian youth lies blocking a bulldozer in Nablus.

The Israeli leader has sug-
gested going straight into a
six to 12 month permanent so-
lution negotiations to end the Is-
raeli-Palestinian conflict. In
doing so, he hopes to avoid con-
frontations — with the Pales-
tinians and with his own
nationalist constituency — at
every step of the current inter-
im agreement.
For their part, the Palestini-
ans say they will talk about a fi-
nal deal, but only parallel to the
interim negotiations. They sus-
pect that Netanyahu would use
single-track talks to stall every-
thing; they want him to contin-
ue with the three "further
redeployments" he promised
during January's Hebron pull-
back.
The Palestinian commit-
ments are understood to include
cooperating with Israel in its
war on terror.
Because Palestinians say
they feel that Netanyahu is no
longer their partner in peace,
Erkat warned of a return to "the
confrontation, disaster and vio-
lence we tried to get out of. For
the first time in 100 years we
have a group of Palestinians
who were elected by the people
and constitute interlocutors.
Why are they trying to destroy
us? Netanyahu has strength-
ened our Palestinian extremists.

the number for a year ago.
"People are disillusioned, an-
gry and frustrated," explained
Khalil Shikaki, director of the
Nablus research center. "There
is a realization that the Ne-
tanyahu government may not
deliver."
Shikaki detected an increase
in support for violence after the
armed clashes between Israeli
and Palestinian security forces
that followed Israel's opening of
a tourist tunnel near Muslim
holy places in Jerusalem last
September.
"These confrontations indi-
cated for most people that there
was a potential of putting pres-
sure on the Netanyahu govern-
ment through a selective use of
force," he said. "They saw that
Netanyahu backed down under
this kind of pressure. Similarly,
they feel that Har Homa cannot
be solved by the political process
alone."
The news from the polls is
bad, but the Palestinians have
not yet abandoned all hope.
Shikaki noted that a clear ma-
jority still backed the Oslo
process and that those who sup-
ported violence remained a mi-
nority, albeit a large one. "The
decline in support for the peace
process," he contended, "could
prove temporary. It is re-
versible."

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