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staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz said,
Israel would no longer take lines on
the map into account "in our strikes
against the terrorists."
Sharon and Ben-Eliezer also have
ordered the use of helicopter gunships,
despite an earlier pledge from Ben-
Eliezer not to deploy them.
Following a wave of bombings in
Israeli cities, helicopters were used March
28 to rocket Force 17 targets in Gaza
and the West Bank city of Ramallah.
On Monday, their rockets were used
again to kill a leading Islamic Jihad
militant in southern Gaza.
On Tuesday, helicopters rocketed a
Palestinian naval police base, a Force 17
facility and a compound shared by several
Palescinian security services, all in Gaza.

Lessons From Lebanon

The same day, Sharon rejected an
Egyptian-Jordanian proposal for resum-
ing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
presented the proposal Monday during a
meeting with President Bush at the
White House, but Sharon, who received
it through unofficial channels, sees it as
an attempt to renew negotiations while
Palestinian violence continues — some-
thing he has repeatedly vowed not to do.

As with his other recent actions,
Sharon's rejection met with broad
public support.
His basic position — that shooting
must stop before talks can resume —
appears to jibe with the public mood,
which is determined not to reward
Palestinian violence.
Palestinian strategists have focused on
Israel's unilateral withdrawal from southern
Lebanon last May after years of low-level
war with Hezbollah gunmen. This has led
them to predict that similar Palestinian
pressure — a euphemism for acts of terror
— will eventually force Israel to give up all
of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israel's staying power in recent years
has been sorely lacking — but so far,
at least, Israelis are showing more
steadfastness than the Palestinian
strategists bargained for.
Even those Israelis who wholeheartedly
supported former Prime Minister Ehud
Barak's willingness to give up land for
peace are just as wholeheartedly rejecting
such concessions under military' pressure.
Arafat's rejection of the Barak-
Clinton peace proposals has engen-
dered a genuine sense of national
unity among Israelis.
It might dissipate if and 1,vhen the
diplomatic conditions change. But for
now, at least, it is palpable and real.

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