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...while Peres is viewed as a softer adversary, the Palestinians fear that he will not be able to rally Israel behind him. Says a senior Palestinian Authority official, "The Israeli politicians are sad now. But after three days you will see them again shouting at each other in the Knesset. We will go back to square one, and the victim will be our agreement with the Israelis...
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...
...Israel -- Knesset: During a December debate, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres expressed mild disapproval of the biblical King David's ethics (he slept with Bathsheba, a married woman, and arranged to have her husband killed). Peres' comments outraged members of religious parties. One shouted, "Shut up! You will not give out grades to King David!" and physically menaced Peres; another was so upset he had to be treated for high blood pressure. (A year earlier a Labor Party member had set off a similar fracas by suggesting King David was bisexual...
...poll secretly commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's ruling Labor Party has found that his government would be trounced were general elections held now, Labor and other government sources have told TIME. According to the poll, Labor's share of the 120-seat Knesset would shrink from 44 seats to only 27. The opposition Likud Party, on the other hand, would leap from 32 seats to 47. "There is a great deal of alarm in the party," one Labor official admits. The clandestine poll, unlike far more optimistic recent public surveys, had an unusually large sample size...
President Clinton, continuing his plunge as diplomat-in-chief on this week'sMiddle Easttour, said Syrian President Hafez Assad "went beyond anything he said before" on peace with Israel in a three-hour meeting. The president then raced from Damascus to Jerusalem, where he told lawmakers in the Knesset: "I went there convinced we needed to add new energy to the talks and I'm convinced now that we have."TIME correspondent Lara Marlowe, in the Syrian capital, says, however, that Assad's offer of "full peace" if Israel first withdraws from the disputed Golan Heights is something...