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...Arab diplomat in Washington, these pronouncements meant that "Bush is building a one-sided case for war." To an official of Israel's governing Likud Party, the same words signified that the U.S. was getting cold feet. Said he: "The longer Bush waits, the harder it will be for the U.S. to go to war." At home too the President faced growing demands to spell out whether he was in fact taking the nation to war and, if so, for what goals...
...once the Likud bloc came into dominance in the late '70s, an additional motive that had been lurking on the fringes of Israeli politics moved front and center: irredentism -- one state's claim, rooted in history, to the land of another. So Israel's policy today does indeed have something in common with Iraq's. Saddam says that since Kuwait and Iraq were part of the same province under the control of the Ottoman Turks, they should be rejoined now. For their part, many Likud leaders believe that since the West Bank was ruled by Israelites in biblical times...
...sidedness of the carnage on the Temple Mount two weeks ago -- 19 Arabs dead -- bespeaks a state of affairs that brutalizes all concerned. For now the Palestinians are the principal victims. But in the long run, the casualties of Likud irredentism will include David Ben-Gurion's ideal of Israel as "a light unto the nations," perhaps even the viability and credibility of Israel's democracy, and certainly its support from the rest of the world...
...meeting with Faoud was significant within both the context of the trip and current events. During the previous days my group had met with Benjamin Netanyahu, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Likud government, who opposes giving back the Israeli-occupied territories; a member of Peace Now who seeks to find common ground within moderate Palestinian circles; and the Radawan, the Palestinian leader...
...American answer to that question ought still to be yes. The Likud is using the current upheaval to underscore one reason for the Arab-Israeli conflict -- the bellicosity and treacherousness of its radical neighbors -- while obscuring another -- Israeli intransigence and expansionism. As long as Israel refuses to budge from any of the occupied territory and as long as it continues to repress the Palestinians who live there, Israeli policy will be a source of instability; and the U.S., as Israel's friend and guardian, will pay a price in its ability to deal with Arabs of all stripes, moderates...