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Tuesday, when a Palestinian twice
drove his car into a group of Israeli
soldiers hitchhiking on a road some
30 miles west of Jerusalem before
Israeli troops shot and killed him.
Twelve people suffered light to
moderate injuries.
Several other incidents occurring
in recent days also could have
derailed peace talks.
Last week, two Israeli settlers
were wounded in a shooting attack
for which Hamas later claimed
responsibility, and on Tuesday, vio-
lent clashes erupted around Joseph's
Tomb in the West Bank town of
Nablus.
In another incident that took
place in the predawn hours Tuesday,
Israeli police stepped in quickly to
close up an entrance to Jerusalem's
Temple Mount that Islamic officials
opened earlier this week.
Barak said Tuesday that Islamic
officials violated the law when they
excavated the opening at the Al-
Aksa Mosque, and he praised the
police response. Barak's stance was
viewed as a signal that he would
take a tough line regarding the sta-
tus quo in Jerusalem's Old City.
While few would doubt that
Barak, a former army chief of staff,
would be soft on security issues, he
is being criticized for the perempto-
ry manner in which he deals with
some members of his own One

Israel bloc. After just a month in
power, Barak has managed to alien-
ate some of his ministers.
Cabinet ministers Yossi Beilin,
Justice, and Shlomo Ben-Ami,
Public Security, complained about
not being consulted over the diplo-
matic process, despite their experi-
ence and proven expertise in this
area.
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Barak is being criticized for his
apparently deliberate refusal to put
in place any serious consultative
machinery involving ministers and
top officials. Instead, he telephones
people individually, often late at
night, and launches into long brief-
ings that leave them feeling fully
clued in — but at the same time
effectively ignored.
Specifically, the critics say, a
"Kitchen Cabinet" of top ministers,
had one existed, would have steered
Barak away from going public with
his Wye revision plan before pre-
senting it to Arafat.
Kitchen Cabinets of four, or at
most five, participants have been
•the norm in Israel since Prime
Minister Golda Meir's day, as they
are in many parliamentary democra-
cies.
By contrast, the Security Cabinet,
a body mandated by law, often
includes more than half of the full
Cabinet and is therefore unwieldy
— and full of leaks as well. fl

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A member of the Jewish burial society, "Hevrat Kadisha," cleans up the blood of the
man who drove his red Fiat car, background into hitchhiking Israeli soldiers at the
Nachshon Junction, 30 miles west ofierusalem, injuring 12 people, before he was
shot and killed Tuesday. Police identified the driver as a Palestinian militant.

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