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Heretics Nos. 2 and 3 are high-ranking Israelis. Speaking in Washington, Health Minister Ehud Olmert, a confidant of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, proclaimed Israel to be ready for negotiations with Syria that could include even "the territorial demands of the Syrians." At a farewell news conference in Tel Aviv, Dan Shomron, who retires in April as Israel's Chief of Staff, remarked cryptically that as part of a possible "political agreement ((that)) involves demilitarizations, arms limitations" and other items, "one can speak about risk vs. territory...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir cannot pay anything more than lip service even to his own 1989 plan for elections to choose Palestinian leaders, who would negotiate some form of limited autonomy. Otherwise his government might well be toppled by rightist members who want to annex the territories outright. The Labor Party, which accepts the idea of land for peace, has never had less popular support. So new elections might well return a government even further to the right than the present Likud-led coalition...
There are signs that Israel, hard pressed by the cost of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jewish immigrants, is open to arms-limitation proposals that would help keep down its military outlays, which have already shrunk about 15% in the past three years. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has proposed a regional limitation on "nonconventional" weapons -- presumably meaning chemical and biological -- as a confidence-building measure between Israel and the Arab states. But so long as he gives no sign that Israel would bargain away its nuclear arsenal, Arab nations are unlikely to agree...
Which at the moment seems a monstrous if. In Israel only the left wing would consider anything resembling the Saudi approach, and it has been discredited by Palestinian cheers for the Scud missiles rained on Israel by Iraq during the war. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has no intention of yielding an inch of the occupied territories; he will not even promote his own 1989 plan to hold elections in the territories and then negotiate limited autonomy with the people's choices. If Shamir should falter, he may be brought down by the rightists in the governing Likud coalition who want...
Palestinians blame everyone but themselves for their latest setback, failing to acknowledge that the enormous political and financial damage they are suffering is largely self-inflicted. By siding with Saddam, they lost sympathy and support among the allies, both Western and Arab, and handed Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir a propaganda windfall. Unless they quickly face up to their mistakes, they will miss a unique opportunity to press their case in postwar negotiations...