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2/27
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MICS 11669

Standing Down

ERIC SILVER
Israel Correspondent

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erusalem — Israelis' first
response to the Baghdad agree-
ment between Saddam Hus-
sein and the United Nations
Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, was a
sigh of relief. The heat was off. The
lines at gas mask distribution stations
melted overnight like snow in
Jerusalem. In the worried suburbs of
the coastal plain, families ripped down
the masking tape and plastic sheeting
and unsealed their windows.
But in the best tradition of Jewish
paranoia, commentators and citizens
alike began taking stock. Was the deal
good for Israel? Well, yes. Was it bad
for Israel? That too. Bill Clinton had
won, but so had Saddam. The Middle
East was safer in some ways, more
dangerous in others. Don't throw away
the gas mask.
Shay Feldman, director of Tel Aviv
University's Jaffee Center for Strategic
Studies, stressed the bright side. "For
Israel," he told me, "what's really
important is the continued integrity
and functioning of the United
Nations inspectors. They will still have
unrestricted access to suspect sites, and
Saddam failed to impose a cut-off
date. Israel is an interested party in the
efforts to prevent Iraq from building
the capability to produce weapons of
mass destruction. To the extent that
the UN inspectorate remains in place,
it clearly serves that interest."
At the same time, Feldman estimat-
ed, it was a plus for Israel that Ameri-
can diplomacy prevailed. And that it
did so by remaining within the con-
sensus of the UN Security Council
and showing that it meant business.
"That provides a cumulative deter-
rent," he said, "against those in the
Middle East who might be thinking
about challenging the United States
and its interests in the region."
Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew Universi-
ty political scientist and former For-
eign Ministry director-general,
applauded Washington for backing
its diplomacy with a credible threat
of force. "There's no doubt," he
wrote in the Jerusalem Post, "that
Saddam would have continued to
flaunt UN resolutions and play cat
and mouse with UNSCOM inspec-
tors if he wouldn't have had to face
down the threat of massive American
power pounding his strongholds.

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