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...negotiate with Palestinians and the fact that Israel has no quarrel with any of its Arab neighbors that cannot be solved amicably. But Silver notes that his omissions say more than the rhetoric: "He didn't mention the Oslo peace agreement, he set no time for redeploying troops from Hebron or meeting with Arafat. Unlike his predecessor, he still speaks of Arafat as a terrorist and shows visible repugnance at the prospect of meeting him." Netanyahu also insisted that peace negotiations cannot proceed as long as terrorist attacks continue, saying that one of the pillars of peace is reciprocity...
...peace negotiations he had championed. Netanyahu, by contrast, campaigned on promises that could halt the peace talks in their tracks: he vowed not to cede the Golan Heights to Syria, not to stop Jewish settlements in the West Bank and to put off the redeployment of Israeli troops from Hebron. At the same time, the American-educated Israeli fears denting his country's ironclad relationship with the U.S. In that respect, his timing couldn't be better. "There's concern that Clinton is not going to confront Netanyahu with some very hard questions regarding his confrontational policies," reports TIME...
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to pledge in principle next week to withdraw Israeli troops from the West Bank city of Hebron, but not without changes in the agreement with the Palestinian Authority. TIME's Eric Silver reports that Netanyahu wants to enlarge the area of Hebron under Israeli control and reduce the number of Palestinian security troops in the city of 94,000 Palestinians and 450 Jewish settlers. "Netanyahu can't make these changes unilaterally," Silver says. "Palestinians are extremely reluctant to yield any more land or leverage in Hebron to the Israeli army and settlers." Hebron...
...said little about it in the final weeks of the campaign. If, because of his political situation, Peres failed to live up to one of his promises, they simply ignored it. The accord Shaath brokered, for example, calls for Israelis to withdraw forces from the West Bank town of Hebron, but that hasn't happened yet. "We normally would have screamed," Shaath says, "but we've generally kept quiet. We've been patient with Peres as he has had to satisfy the Israeli right wing. The question is whether that patience will have been worth...
...Washington, where President Clinton was counting on a Peres victory to continue the process towards Middle East peace. Netanyahu has pledged to take a much tougher line against Yasser Arafat, to expand Jewish settlements in the West bank ant to renege on the promise to withdraw Israeli troops from Hebron. Adding to the fear that peace with Palestinians is in serious jeopardy, Ariel Sharon, a senior Likud official said on Israeli radio: "Our government cannot accept the Oslo accord exactly as it is." Many now hope that the American-educated Netanyahu will prove more pragmatic than his fiery campaign rhetoric...