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to write him off yet. Nor should the
Clinton Administration embrace him
uncritically as a friendly pragmatist
who can make things happen.
It was Sharon, more than anyone,
who gave Netanyahu a pretext for
pushing Madeleine Albright's
December deadline into the new year.
Israelis, the prime minister insisted,
were not going to be pressured into
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taking ill-considered decisions which
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their children and grandchildren
would have to live and die with.
t was September 1978, Day 11
Ministers had to weigh the risks.
- of the Camp David summit
Sharon produced his own map of
that paved the way for the
Israel's irreducible West Bank "nation-
Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.
al interests." He guided journalists
Anwar Sadat was threatening to go
and cabinet colleagues on tours of the
home if Menachem Begin would not
terrain. His assessments of what Israel
evacuate the Jewish settlements in
could safely give up, and what it had
Sinai.
to keep, were at odds
One of the Israel
with those of Defense
prime minister's military
Minister Yitzhak
aides surreptitiously
Mordechai and the mil-
phoned Ariel Sharon,
itary establishment.
war hero and settlers'
The Israeli media are
champion, and asked
calling it "the war of
whether Israel could
the maps." Mordechai
safely pull them out.
is proposing that Israel
Sharon's answer, to the
hold on to 55 per cent
aide and later to Begin,
of the West Bank.
was yes. The prime
Sharon wants to keep
minister was persuaded;
70 per cent. Mordechai
Sadat unpacked his
wants an eastern securi-
bags.
ty belt 10-15 kms wide
Four years later, as
-
along the Jordanian
Ariel Sharon is the settlers'
defense minister, Sharon
border and a western
champion.
completed the evacua-
security belt across the
tion and razed the set-
1948-67 "green line" of 3-6 kms.
tler town of Yamit to the sand. The
Sharon is demanding 20 kms in the
same Sharon, in the early 1990s,
east and 7-10 kms in the west. No
forced through the biggest settlement-
one was asking the Palestinians.
building drive ever in the West Bank
Their disagreement gave
and Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu credible grounds for beg-
The settlers and their right-wing
ging more time from the Americans.
allies are still not sure whose side the
What seems to have swayed the assis-
mountainous old warrior is on. When
tant secretary of state, Martin Indyk,
they assailed him for facilitating fur-
even more was Netanyahu's plea that
ther West Bank redeployments,
he could make no contentious deci-
Sharon accused them of not knowing
sions until the 1998 budget had
their friends from their foes.
passed the Knesset. The legislative
Now Binyamin Netanyahu's
deadline was Dec. 31.
national infrastructure minister,
Akiva Eldar, Ha'aretz columnist
Sharon has given the settlers cause for
and former Washington correspon-
suspicion. During the 1996 election
dent, reported this week that
campaign, he declared: "If the Likud
Netanyahu challenged a visiting
endorses the Oslo accords, it has no
American delegation to cite one
right to exist." In the same year, he
example where he had deceived the
wrote: "We will not permit the estab-
administration. When they declined
lishment of a Palestinian state."
to answer, the prime minister persist-
Now, as the right sees it, Sharon is
ed: "Who would President Clinton
drawing maps that will resurrect Oslo.
rather buy a used car from, me or
And, visiting the United States, he
Yassir Arafat?"
assured the White House recently that
Congressman Gary Ackerman
a Palestinian state was already a fact
broke the silence. "If you're asking
of life.
me," he replied, "I'd walk." ❑
But the settlers would be wise not
Ariel Sharon has
everyone guessing at his
sentiments as a key man
in producing a delayed
West Bank pullout.
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