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hours while Netanyahu tried desper-
ately to win crucial votes, from left as
well as right.
He promised the hawks of the
"Land of Israel Front" to put the peace
process on ice. At the same time, he
assured the doves — including Israeli-
Arab Knesset members — that he
would continue to implement the
Wye Memorandum. None of them
were convinced.
In the end, 61 Knesset members
out of 120 were poised to vote against
the government. At the prime minis-
ter's prompting, the Haredi (fervently
religious) United Torah Judaism party
moved that it be treated as a vote of
confidence. Normally this calls for a
seven-day interval, but because
Clinton will be here this week the
opposition agreed to wait longer.
"Netanyahu lost his self-confi-
dence," Sima Kadmon commented in
the mass-circulation newspaper Yediot
Aharonot. "The great wizard has lost
his charm. The magic didn't work. His
tricks were seen for what they were
one time too many."

The government
could fall
on Dec. 21.

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The tabloid Ma'ariv added:
"Netanyahu regressed to his political
home on the right and burned his
bridges to the center. The
Government of Israel now has no firm
political platform, no consensus, no
partner for negotiations and no
patron."
The crisis was precipitated when
the former foreign minister, David
Levy, retracted his agreement to rejoin
the government. Levy the champion
of the poor, demanded to lead the
Finance Ministry, but Netanyahu
feared that Levy's social agenda would
undermine the government's free-mar-
ket economic strategy.
Israeli analysts argue that this
week's embarrassment leaves the prime
minister a hostage to the right. He has
already suspended implementation of
remaining West Bank withdrawals
until the Palestinians fulfill their com-
mitments as he defines them.
Netanyahu accused Yassir Arafat of
violating the Wye Memorandum by
threatening again to declare a state

unilaterally next May and by encour-
aging attacks on Israelis. "We will not
let them humiliate Israel," he corn-
plained. "We are not suckers. You can-
not make a joke out of the whole
process and say it is raining when they
are spitting on us. In this situation I
do not see any further withdrawal."
But how will he appease the right
without alienating Clinton, who is
coming to give the peace process a
push forward?
The American president faces a chilly
reception from an embattled Israeli gov-
ernment that sees the visit as a diplo-
matic coup for Arafat and the cause of a
Palestinian state. At a Cabinet meeting
on Sunday, minister after minister
argued against Clinton's trip.
But as of press time, the president's
trip was a go and Netanyahu was brac-
ingfor what it might bring .

Reviewing Pollard

Washington

President Clinton's latest review of the
Jonathan Pollard matter, promised in
the frenzied last hours of the Wve
River summit in October, when Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanvahu threat-
ened to walk. away from the talks if
the convicted spy wasn't released,
could be completed by Jan. 11, the
White House said this week.
Clinton also said he would be con-
sulting with some of the same forces
in the government that have been
most vociferous in opposing Pollard's
release.
That includes law enforcement and
intelligence officials such as George
Tenet, the director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, who threatened to
resign if Pollard's release was part of
the Wye agreement.
The apparent makeup of the presi-
dential review incensed Pollard's attor-
ney, Larry Dub, who requested the
right to review material submitted to
the White House on the case, a
request sources here say is unlikely to
be heeded.
Specifically, he pointed to Tenet's
threat to resign, and charged that the
CIA has "initiated a witch hunt to rid
the agency of Jews holding security
clearances."
Also this week, sources at the Israeli
Embassy in Washington reported a
sharp increase in the volume of calls
from Pollard supporters urging a more
active effort by the Netanyahu govern-
ment to win his release.

—James D. Besser