Keinan, a soft-spoken woman with
an animated face, says the katyushas
don't worry her — nobody on Elon
has ever been injured by one and most
land in the kibbutz fields. When the
sirens sound, she rarely even goes
down into the bomb shelter.
"My fear is of face-to-face violence,
of someone coming to kill you," she
says. In other words, her fear is for her
sons.
She acknowledges that after a with-
drawal there's no guarantee that
Hezbollah wouldn't come down to the
Israeli border and have an easier time
firing rockets and infiltrating the bor-
der. But the presence of Israeli soldiers
in south Lebanon has not guaranteed
security, either, she notes.
If Israel withdrew, she suggests,
maybe Hezbollah would be satisfied,
maybe Syria could be induced to
make peace, maybe foreign peacekeep-
ing troops could take the Israeli sol-
diers' place.
"I don't know what's going to hap-
pen if we try to get out," Keinan says,
"but I know that this war is too horri-
ble to just keep going on."
Others like Avakrat see withdrawal
as a recipe for a closer, even more cost-
ly war.
Leaning forward across the desk in
his office, Avakrat points out the win-

Israel's presence
has brought
no guarantees.

dow and says forcefully, "If we pull
out of the security zone, Hezbollah
will come down that hill and they
won't leave a stone unturned in the
Galilee. Is this the time for a national
debate on the issue, when the Israeli
people are so depressed? Hezbollah
reads the newspapers."
To those who call for withdrawal,
he says, "If we pull out today, it will
be a surrender to Hezbollah and Syria.
They'll take this as a sign of weakness,
and it will serve as fuel for Hezbollah's
rockets."
As for the idea of foreign peace-
keeping troops taking the Israelis'
place, he says, "It's a very good idea —
for Switzerland."
Avakrat still speaks for the Israeli
consensus on Lebanon. But Keinan's is
a voice that is growing louder as the
war kills more soldiers and appears as
far as ever from an end.

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