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Members of the Israeli Likud opposition party have characterized Arafat as a man who has "more Jewish blood on his hands then anyone since Adolf Hitler." These claims accurately reflect the revulsion long felt for Arafat by Israelis and Jews cognizant of his violent past. If peace is to be made in the Middle East, Arafat must replace these memories of terror with new realities of conciliation...
Once a powerful force under Likud governments, the settlers have seen their leverage weaken since Labor's rise to power last year. Rabin made it clear that the settlers represented only 4% of the population, and he cared more about the other 96%. Although many Jews in the occupied territories are young married couples originally drawn by tax breaks and cheaper housing to the bedroom communities outside Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a core of hard-liners are fired by a messianic fervor that charges them with settling the biblical lands where the Jews once lived...
...referendum on his agreement with Yasser Arafat to begin limited Palestinian self-rule, and begged Kollek to run again. It was a mistake not even Kollek's legendary charm could reverse. Olmert wisely let the mayor's 82 years speak for themselves: he kept silent on how a conservative Likud government would run the city. While Kollek tried to deflect the inevitable snooze jokes and sought unsuccessfully to woo Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who have traditionally boycotted elections and felt ignored by the mayor, the Likud candidate promised ultra-Orthodox Jews more power and money, and won handily with...
These dual meanings bespeak the two perspectives from which Israel and its backers regard the recent entente. There is one essential difference between the accord's Labor sponsors and its Likud opponents: The latter fail to recognize that the uneasy standoff in the Middle East, though it has proven durable, has an essentially temporary character...
...asks--its untouchable status is part of the architecture. It is to Israel's advantage to have a PLO whose legitimacy is grounded in its special relationship to Israel; still, the hard-liners balk. Recognizing the PLO, though it opens up tremendous possibilities, could upset the House Likud Built...