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Washington:
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The United States must push draconian, but
diplomatic pressure on Israel and the Palestinians.

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DR. KENNETH W. STEIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1997, 7:00 P.M.

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When I visited Tunis in Octo-
xploding nail bombs were
a reality check. Deeds do ber 1993, members of the PLO
count. Actions speak vol- Executive-Committee reminded
umes. A peace process that me that Arafat had committed
includes death is an oxymoron. original sin by recognizing
In spirit and content the Oslo ac- Israel. Despising the action
cords remain flawed. But they were not just radicals and Is-
cannot be tossed into the dust lamically-imbued Palestinian
nationalists, but political
bin.
Yassir Arafat lieutenants who worked
Palestinian terrorists
and
kin Israelis regardless of Binyamin for decades to liberate all
whether there is a Likud or Netanyahu of "Palestine."
But dealing with Israel
Labor prime minister. face
Yielding territory to Pales- increased diplomatically did not al-
tinian control does not hostilities. ter Arafat's political goals:
an independent Palestin-
bring security to Israelis,
and yawning gaps remain be- ian state in all of the West Bank
tween Arafat's promises and his and Gaza Strip with Jerusalem
as its capital.
performance.
Only slightly did he refrain
In 1993, the status quo and
outlook of the Palestinian corn- from hateful rhetoric. Only
munity was so bleak that em- mildly, did he curb radicals who
bracing Israel was Arafat's best vehemently opposed the agree-
alternative. Declining oil prices, ment.
Like Sadat, he signed an
the depressing economic impact
of the intifada, and expulsion of agreement to curry favor with
400,000 Palestinians from jobs the United States and western
in the Arab Gulf pushed Arafat donor nations; secondarily, and
to the United States and the in- then only with the zest and
ternational community as a res- speed of a drunken turtle, did he
cue from fiscal implosion. After vaguely try to provide Israelis
backing Saddam Hussein's in- with the personal security they
vasion of Iraq, from 1991 on- sought.
Israel recognized Arafat be-
wards the Arab world decreased
interest in making the Pales- cause he was the known quan-
tity. Rabin and Peres understood
tinians a top priority.
The Oslo accords were that Arafat had not become an
Arafat's heart-lung machine: He Arab Zionist.
They estimated that if Arafat
tied his personal and the Pales-
tinians' future to Israel and the showed that it was kosher to
United States; he had no other deal with Israel, then slowly his
option. He reluctantly reckoned community and other Arabs
that he "needed" a relationship would accept Israeli existence,
with Israel, but he didn't "want" albeit reluctantly. That has hap-
pened.
one.
By signing the Oslo accords,

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Dr. Kenneth W. Stein is a
professor at Emory University.

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