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But a key to that support, Yoffe
said, is Barak's referendum promise.
"If there is an agreement that is
endorsed by the Israeli people, there
will be some very loud voices of
protest here, a lot of noise, but in the
final analysis, American Jews will
accept the wisdom of the government
and the Israeli people," he said.

Buying Peace

That noise will be particularly loud on
Capitol Hill, where peace process
opponents will try to block the big aid
packages that are expected to be

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important pillars of any deal.
Aid remains the "soft underbelly" of
the peace process," said Thomas
Smerling, Washington director for the
Israel Policy Center, a pro-peace
process group. "They correctly under-
stand that U.S. help to the parties is a
key ingredient. If they can pull on
that loose thread, maybe they can
unravel the whole thing."
Smerling predicted that Congress
will ultimately approve new aid
requests, if they are presented as part
of a successful peace package.
"In the end, Congress will look to

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Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud
Barak, right, helps
Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat in the
door, after the two
joked with each
other about which
one goes in the door
first, after walking
on the grounds of
Camp David on
July 11.

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"The West Bankers and Gazans
would get a state, and the refugees
would pay the price," is the way he
put it.
If Arafat acts according to Shikaki's
forecast, the PA chairman would be
taking a moderate position — even if
it goes well beyond anything Barak has
hinted he might accept, and even if
most Israelis would view such a stance
as the height of Palestinian chutzpa.
No known body of Palestinian
opinion holds that Arafat has been too
tough on the Israelis; many
Palestinians criticize Arafat for acqui-
escing too much, far too much for
their tastes.
One of the most prominent of
these critics, and one of the most
respected Palestinian public figures, is
Gazan elder statesman Dr. Haider
Abdel Shafi, who headed the
Palestinian contingent to the Madrid
peace talks.
While Shafi said that in principle,
he would not object to negotiating

land exchanges to make up for Israel's
annexing a small portion of the West
Bank, he would object to trading any
part of the land in east Jerusalem —
including Gilo, French Hill, East
Talpiot and the other neighborhoods
where some 170,000 Israeli Jews
reside.
"All of east Jerusalem must come
under Palestinian jurisdiction, and the
Israelis living there will have to
become citizens of Palestine," Shafi
said.
And while he recognized that not
all the millions of refugees could come
back to Haifa, Jaffa and their old vil-
lages — over 400 of which were
destroyed by Israel after the War of
Independence — Shafi's solution was
for Israel to turn over vast parts of
land, perhaps in the Galilee, to
Palestine. The refugees could resettle
there, he suggested.

Divided Delegation

Harder liners are not so "conciliatory,"
and they are welt-represented in the
delegation of 50-odd public figures