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Burg's ability to combine his own
Orthodoxy with an outspoken com-
mitment to religious pluralism further
strengthened his standing in commu-
nities abroad — and within his own
party at home.
During the lean months of 1998,
when Barak looked to be helplessly
trailing former Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu, Burg came
close to saying outright that he him-
self might make a better and more
electable leader for the party.
In light of Barak's subsequent
sweeping victory, such talk — and
even such thoughts — carry no reso-
nance, of course.
But from the lofty elevation of the
speaker's chair, Burg now can afford
to be patient.
He can also afford to be loyal, or to
at least seem to be. The speaker does
not traditionally make critical remarks
about anyone, and certainly not about
the prime minister.
But Burg can be counted on to
make his presence felt in other ways.
Already, he has embarked on a sched-
ule of personal engagements — includ-
ing his recent meeting with the speaker
of the Palestinian legislative council,
Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud
Barak and
Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak
met at the
Ras El Tin Palace
in Alexandria,
Egypt, Thursday
July 29 to discuss
the Middle East
peace process.
Peace Squabble
Jerusalem/JTA
sraeli-Palestinian negotiations may
al be suspended entirely if the
Palestinian Authority does not clamp
down on terrorism, Prime Minister
Ehud Barak has warned.
The warning, issued after two settlers
were wounded Tuesday in the West
Bank town of Hebron, came at a time
when Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking
efforts had already been complicated by
publicly aired squabbles over when and
how the Wye agreement's land-for-secu-
rity deal should be implemented.
Reacting to the first attack on
Israeli civilians since he took office,
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Ahmed Karia, also known as Abu Alaa.
Burg had invited his Palestinian
counterpart to visit the Knesset, a
move that generated international
media coverage.
In addition, Burg has launched a
campaign to improve the rules of deco-
rum in the often-fractious Knesset,
issuing bans on smoking, cell phones
and sexual harassment. He also has
ordered all signs in the Parliament to
be posted in Arabic as well as Hebrew.
The Knesset speakership, like the
Jewish Agency chairmanship, is tradi-
tionally seen as an honorable step
down for politicians.
There is, however, one exception in
Israeli history. When Yitzhak Shamir
was shunted into the speakership by
then-Premier Menachem Begin, all the
commentators eulogized Shamir as a
man whose political career was over.
But when Begin quit in 1983,
Shamir — by then foreign minister —
stepped into his shoes, and stayed in
them for close to a decade.
Burg, though much humbled by his
gaffe last week, can be confidently
expected to follow that path — popping
up as the man of the moment should the
present prime minister falter. P1
Barak called Wednesday on the
Palestinian Authority to apprehend
the perpetrators of Tuesday night's
shooting attack in the often volatile
West Bank town.
The Palestinian Authority con-
demned the incident, in which
unknown gunmen opened fire on the
two settlers as they were driving near
the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
Days before the incident, Israeli
and Palestinian leaders began publicly
criticizing one another after peace
talks ended in disagreement Sunday
with no new date set for them to
reconvene.
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