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This is not to say, of course, that the majority of right-leaning Israelis would ever think to condone this grisly act. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu has charted a course of loyal opposition, making clear that he respects the authority of the Labor government even as he vehemently disagrees with its policies. Still, a small but significant fringe has emerged on the right which callously disregards the rule of law--and threatens to rend asunder the Israeli social and political fabric...
Speaking by phone with CNN, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the opposition Likud party said: "The mind refuses to accept it. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Israel, in the history of the Jewish people. We must excoriate this phenomenon and take these people out of our society...
Building a stable peace on the agreement will not be easy. "It's not a done deal," reports Sam Allis in Jerusalem. "For the Israelis, the debate next week in the Knesset will be critical. Many in the Likud believe they can rewrite the rules allowing Israeli forces to go wherever they want. As for Arafat, he continues to make the Likud's job vastly easier with his inflammatory rhetoric to his own people. He continues to call for jihad, for the retaking of Jerusalem. Utterly absent is a new vocabulary aimed at creating a different image of the Israelis...
...poll conducted in late April found that only 45% of Israelis still favored the peace accord. At the time it was signed, 61% favored it. Other recent polls show Israelis consistently preferring Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the opposition Likud Party, over Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Netanyahu is harshly critical of the peace agreement and has said he considers it a dead letter because of Palestinian violations. Most Palestinians -- 69% by one survey -- approved of the agreement when it was made. Now only 40% report satisfaction with it, according to a poll released last week by the Jerusalem Media and Communications...
...surrendering the Golan, where Syrian gunners used to attack northern Israeli settlements before Israel captured it in the 1967 Mideast war. "It's clear thatin these meetingshe has already given up the Golan Heights, without which there can be no security," said Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the opposition Likud bloc...