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Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu following their meeting in
Jerusalem.

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adeleine Albright left
behind a Middle East
more fearful than when
she went to Israel to sal-
vage the peace process. In her first
``,official visit, the Secretary of State
/ failed to restore even a modicum of
\,
, trust between Israelis and Palestinians
or to coax the Syrians back to the
negotiating table.
\ ---, It is a measure of her failure that
senior Israeli security officers admit
privately that there is a high probabili-
ty of more suicide bombings like those
which killed a total of 20 civilians in a
Jerusalem shopping mall on
September 4 and in a market five
weeks earlier. "When Hamas threatens
to carry out more attacks," one of
them said, "we take it very seriously.
They have the people, they have the
/-- capability"
Security men also complain that
the arrival of three Jewish settler fami-
lies in the Jerusalem Arab neighbor-
hood of Ras el Amud early this week,
barely 48 hours after Albright flew out
of Israel, will not encourage the
Palestinian police to cooperate in the
war against Islamist terror. This was
`-_-; precisely the kind of "unilateral act"
' Albright pressed Netanyahu to avoid,
acts, as she put it, "which Palestinians
N_ perceive as provocative."
? The chief Palestinian negotiator,
Saeb Erakat, condemned the Ras el
Amud initiative as a direct Israeli reply
to the American call for a time out.
"The Israelis," he said, "won't stop set-
tlement building and they will contin-
ue their fait accompli policies on
Jerusalem."
Even if Binyamin Netanyahu's
Government did not plan the occupa-
tion of two houses owned by the
/-- Miami-based bingo king, Irving
Moscowitz, as a rude gesture to the
Secretary of State, it did nothing to
stop it. The settlers had informed the
police in advance of their intentions.
/- Only after the event did the prime
minister try to turn the clock back.
The same day a planning appeal
board reaffirmed Moscowitz's right to

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3 Madeleine Albright
comes and goes, and the
Israeli-Palestinian
conflict finds another
flash point.

build on other land he bought legally
in Ras el Amud, but Netanyahu
announced that he would not let him
go ahead. "We're not going to allow
private individuals to make decisions
affecting the whole country,"
explained his spokesman, David Bar-
Man. The government, unlike the
planning board, could take security or
public order into account.
Moscowitz himself had told friends
in Jerusalem that he would not go
ahead "in the present circumstances"
and build on his three and a half acre
plot. But, with or without his blessing,
his tenants struck the match for him
in this most incendiary of cities.
The anxiety can be measured in the
hundreds of Jews who are buying their
fruit and vegetables anywhere but the
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from the Ben-Yehuda mall. A Gallup
poll published in Ma'ariv on
September 12 found 72 per cent of
Israelis worried that Netanyahu had
no way to stop the bombers.
The most Madeleine Albright
achieved was to persuade Yassir Arafat
to resume a measure of security coop-
eration, under American supervision,
and to arrest about 150 Hamas
activists. Israel responded by slightly
easing the closure on travel between
the Palestinian territories and Israel
and by releasing another slice of tax
revenues withheld from his Palestinian
Authority after the first suicide bomb-
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Israeli security professionals doubt,
however, whether the Palestinian
leader has given a "red light" to the
terrorists. Nor are they convinced that
the "revolving door" will stay closed.

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