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16 Detroit Jewish News
"Whether the president is con-
victed in the Senate is largely inde-
pendent of how he plays his role as
commander in chief. Clinton's vic-
tories against Saddam do not have a
spin-off effect that would help
Clinton's prospects in the Senate,"
Tanter said.
"I don't believe that what's hap-
pening in Washington will affect the
implementation of the Wye agree-
ment," said Gad-Harf.
Given the "partisan nature" of
national politics, Giles said he
believes there is no chance that the
president will be convicted in the
Senate. He also predicted that
Netanyahu would prevail in the early
elections, sensing that the Labor party
so far is too "splintered" to present a
candidate who could excite voters.
Giles' concern is that the growing
number of religious parry seats after
early elections will make further
coalitions with either Labor or Likud
"all the more treacherous" in terms of
other political policies within the
State of Israel.
Netanyahu, weakened by his own
government, would find it "political
suicide" to move forward with further
withdrawal, considering the lack of
movement on the Palestinian side,
said Giles.
"The future of the Wye agreement
will either rise or fall on the ability
for the Palestinian Authority to fulfill
its part of the obligation," he said.
"The issue is not whether a
Palestinian state will exist, it is a
question of "when and under what
conditions" there will be one, Tanter
said. "If Israel is comparatively
secure from internal and external
threats, moreover, there is little way
to stop the march toward a
Palestinian state."
He added that "because of the new
relationship between the United
States and the Palestinian Authority,
Israel has an incentive to keep the
peace process alive."
Gad-Harf said the United States
has done what it could to help with
the Wye agreement, but now it's up
to the two parties directly involved.
"It's the internal politics within
Israel and within the Palestinian
movement which will be much more
significant in affecting the future of
that agreement," he said.
"Israel does not want, and should
not have, a stare on its borders that
can be a military threat to Israel."
It's much too early to tell what will
happen, and peace depends on
whether Netanayhu is attempting to
consolidate his position to include
support for Wye, or whether the po'
don he takes is viewed as more antag
onistic, said Gad-Harf. "The out-
come should not be regarded as cer-
tain by any means." Li
In Israel,
Business As Usual
Jerusalem
Israelis are getting used to Saddam
Hussein and his wicked ways, even
touch blaze.
The army deployed Patriot air
defense batteries around Tel Aviv
and Haifa last week and opened 67
gas mask distribution centers. But
the 24 hours after the first Tomaha‘
Cruise missiles slammed into
Baghdad, only 4,000 turned up to
renew their protective kits. The cen-
ters closed for Shabbat. Most of the
never reopened.
A platoon of soldiers in the gym
of Jerusalem's Spanian ORT techni-
cal high school was doing a brisk
trade in gas masks and germ warfar
antidotes at the end of the week.
But there was none of the panic of
last February, when thousands
queued for hours, jostling and
grousing in the rain.
This time no one had sealed the
spare bedroom with plastic sheeting
and masking tape against biological
and chemical warfare. They didn't
expect to have to sit, night after
night, listening to the radio and wait-
ing for the all-clear, as they did when
39 Scuds hit Israel in January 1991.
The tensions did have a major
impact, however, in the West Bank,
where Palestinians and Israeli troops
clashed Saturday during pro-Iraq
demonstrations. More than 100
Palestinians were reported wounded
in the clashes. The Palestinian
Authority, trying to restrict demon-
strations of solidarity for Iraq,
detained a number of Palestinian
journalists covering the events.
On Sunday, the Palestinian
Authority also lifted a ban on foreign
news organizations that had attempt-
ed to cover Palestinian demonstra-
tions in support of Iraq. Palestinian
officials had imposed the ban in an
effort to squelch reports about the
demonstrations in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, a source of embarrass-
ment to the self-rule government,
which has sought improved ties with
the United States. LI