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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat before their
meeting at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip Feb. 3 ended in sharp disagreement.
At left is Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and in center is Mahmoud Abbas,
Palestinian deputy leader.
having signed on, they now feel it was
arbitrary of Barak to have canceled it.
• Palestinian officials are also dis-
turbed by what they say is Barak's
refusal to recommit publicly to the
September deadline for reaching the
final peace accord.
With all eyes focused on Israel's
northern border this week — on the
escalation between Israel and
Hezbollah and its possible implica-
tions for the Israeli-Syrian peace
Ze'ev Schiff, Israel's most authoritative
military commentator, wrote in
Ha'aretz. "The assumption is that
Syria wants Hezbollah to be able to
fight for several weeks rather than a
few days, as happened in the past."
The political and psychological bal-
ance in Israel is tilting from peacemak-
ing to belligerence. The Likud opposi-
tion urged Barak to halt negotiations
with Syria "so long as its minions kill
Israeli soldiers."
Pressue is mounting from within
Barak's halls of power as well. Even a
supreme dove like Justice Minister
Yossi Beilin, an architect of the 1993
Oslo breakthrough with the
Palestinians, insisted that Israel's first
duty was to the security of its own cit-
izens and those who were putting their
lives on the line to shield them. No
one could expect immunity, he said, if
they attacked Israeli troops and their
South Lebanese Army allies.
And pressure for unilateral with-
drawal grew this week. The "Four
track — the anger within the
Palestinian leadership tended to get
short shrift in the Israeli media, and
perhaps less-than-adequate attention
in policymaking circles.
But if the escalation in the north
results in a long suspension of the
Israeli-Syrian track, the government
in Jerusalem will be anxious to renew
movement 'on the Palestinian track.
It is far lesS certain that the
Palestinians will be waiting for .them. ❑
Mothers" anti-war campaigners were
not alone in demanding this. Some
ministers, from Meretz's Ran Cohen
on the left to Natan Sharansky on the
right, joined the call.
"Everything must be done to leave
with an agreement, but if there is no
chance of an agreement, we must leave
Lebanon even before the date
promised by the prime minister,"
echoed Labor's Binyamin Ben-Eliezer,
a former special forces general who
once commanded operations across
the Lebanese border.
Barak himself is hinting that he
might agree to this before the July dead-
line he promised the voters in last year's
election. The military general staff has
been working for weeks on a strategy
that would defend front-line communi-
ties from the Galilee side of the border.
The onus is now on Assad. Can he
convince Israel anew that he has made
a strategic choice for peace? If not, the
Syrian peace process is certain to with-
er and die. ❑
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