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ERIC SILVER
Israel Correspondent

Jerusalem

T

posed peace is only a way station
toward the destruction of the Zionist
enterprise. And Damascus keeps
Hezbollah's guerrilla war bubbling in
southern Lebanon.
As so often before, the eloquent
Hebrew novelist Amos Oz has distilled
the unease of the doves. They are
peaceniks but not pacifists, Israelis
who know they will pay their share of
the price if the peace proves as flawed
as the hawks predict.

his weekend's "Swiss sum-
mit" between Bill Clinton
and Hafez Assad is a make-
or-break moment in the
quest for peace between Syria and Israel.
The American president will soon
be a lame duck. The septuagenarian
Syrian president is sick and eager to
hand over the reins to his son,
Bashar. And the Israeli prime
minister, Ehud Barak, the man
in the empty chair in Geneva, is
losing control of his coalition
and his constituency.
If they don't reach an agree-
ment by the summer, it may be
too late. That is why Israel greet-
ed the summit announcement
with extreme caution. The pub-
lic signals from Damascus have
been threatening and insulting.
Barak's circle remembers all
too painfully the disenchant-
•
ment after the last Clinton-Assad
summit, also in Geneva, in
January 1994. Assad wanted
everything and offered nothing
-- not even a corner at the con-
cluding press conference for
Israeli reporters.
Not everyone is despondent,
however. There have been enough
Syrian President Hafez Assad at the Damascus
credible leaks — from Israeli,
airport
in Syria on Monday.
Arab and American sources — to
suggest that significant progress
has been made behind the scenes on
In an impassioned interview with
the Golan border, water sources, securi-
the Ha'aretz newspaper last weekend,
ty and the nature of the peace. Now
Oz accused Assad of making every
Assad has to show the political will to
effort to present Israel with a peace
conclude a deal that Barak can sell to a
agreement in the form of an enema.
skeptical Israeli public.
"He is clearly determined to humil-
iate and degrade us," Oz argued. "It is
Way Station?
as if he was demanding not just peace,
The Syrian leader's performance so far
and not even just the Golan, but that
has been as disturbing to the Israeli .
Ehud Barak should go to meet him
left, which is ready to sacrifice the
dressed only in his underwear, with
Golan Heights for peace, as it is to the
his hands raised in surrender."
right, which wants to keep the heights.
Oz wondered out loud whether
Assad won't meet Barak. He won't
Assad wasn't seeking peace with the
allow his foreign minister to shake
United States, rather than peace with
Barak's hand. Syrian officials call
Israel. Was his real aim to free Syria
Israelis "Nazis," while at the same time from "the stranglehold of encirclement
accusing Jews of fabricating the
and isolation," while pushing Israel
Holocaust. They hint that the pro-
into the international sin bin?

Associated Press

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