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Plans A Secret
JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent
dministration officials, at
least in their public state-
ments, expect Mr.
Netanyahu to arrive in
Washington with detailed plans for
the next West Bank redeployment,
despite the fact that this week's
Cabinet turmoil may make it harder
than ever for the prime minister to
meet Palestinian demands.
Officials here make it plain that if
Netanyahu and Palestinian leader
Yassir Arafat, who arrives two days
later, can't agree on a formula for
restarting intensive talks, the adminis-
tration may offer its own.
But those lofty plans conceal a gap-
ing hole in the administration's
Mideast policy: Almost two years after
his election, officials here are more
clueless than ever about Netanyahu's
realgoals.
Is he committed to some form of
peace process based on the Oslo for-
mula? Or is he staunchly opposed,
seeking only a way to end the talks
without being blamed for their
demise?
Is he trying to finesse a difficult
Cabinet situation in order to move the
peace process forward, albeit not as
fast as people here would like? Or is
he using his internal political woes as
cover for efforts to sabotage the nego-
tiations?
There's little rapport and less trust
between Netanyahu and leading mem-
bers of the administration peace
process team, and that makes it all the
more difficult for officials here to fig-
ure Bibi out.
The result? The kind of formless,
uneven U.S. policy we've seen in the
past year, and the barely contained
frustration of U.S. policymakers who
increasingly suspect they're being
played for suckers.
From the beginning, the adminis-
tration's policy toward Netanyahu has
been affected by a mixture of confu-
sion and wishful thinking.
The Likud leader was boosted to
power in 1996 by an electorate that
wanted "peace with security:" Officials
in Washington weren't happy with the
vote, but they settled on a comforting
assumption about Netanyahu — that
the American-educated, media-savvy
leader would emerge as a pragmatist
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