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merit activity as a quid pro quo for
ending the Palestinian violence. His
coalition, he explained, would not
build new communities, but it
would continue adding homes to
meet natural growth.
"We will not pay protection
money," he insisted.
Sharon reiterated that he would
not negotiate under fire. "Arafat," he
said, "should be under heavy pres-
sure to stop the fire, stop the terror."
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has
hinted, however, that Israel is look-
ing for "100 percent effort" rather
than "100 percent results" from the
Palestinian leader. The Labor wing
of the coalition does not relish a sit-
uation where negotiations can be
derailed by a single Hamas bomber.

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Arafat wants negotiations to pick up
where they left off with Barak.
Sharon offers a "long period of non-
belligerency," which would give the
Palestinians a state on barely 42 per-
cent of the West Bank and Gaza.
That doesn't look like enough.
"The Palestinian leadership and
the Palestinian public are interested
in resuming negotiations," said
Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian politi-
cal scientist. "But for Arafat to con-
vince his people, he has to show
them achievements. Settlements are
an obstacle to a comprehensive
peace."
Although Saeb Erakat, a senior
Palestinian negotiator, is at pains to
deny that the Oslo accords are dead,
Khatib sees no way of reverting to
their gradualist strategy. "We had an
interim agreement before," he said,
"and it didn't work. It's not some-
thing the Palestinian leadership can
sell to its public. They feel that it
was exploited by the Israelis to
expand settlements."
Both Arafat and Sharon are ham-
strung by the expectations they have
generated. A recent poll found 80
percent of Palestinians eager to con-
tinue the intifada, despite the hard-
ship it has brought them. Across the
barricades, even the liberal daily
Hdaretz agrees with Sharon that
Israel must not "reward" violence.
For the first time since Sharon
came to power, the settler hawks
protested on Tuesday night outside
the prime minister's Jerusalem resi-
dence. The Palestinian arms smug-
and the murder of vulnera-
gling
ble settlers this week in Itamar and
are spurring them. 71
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