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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's first popularly elected prime minister, was en route to Washington Monday for his first meeting with President Clinton since he narrowly won the May 16 election. The conservative Netanyahu's mission: to win over Clinton, who had made clear his preference for former Prime Minister Shimon Peres and the Middle East 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...
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...
...election of Benjamin Netanyahu six weeks ago as Israel's new prime minister has discouraged some proponents of the ongoing Middle East peace process. Netanyahu has vowed to take a harder line than did his predecessors, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, on trusting the surrounding Arab nations on security and economic matters...
Your correspondents in Israel paint a picture of the Israeli right as warmongers, anxiously awaiting battle with the Arab residents of Israel. I voted for Netanyahu. As the mother of five sons, I have no desire to pursue war with anyone. Netanyahu was elected because Shimon Peres too easily forgot Arafat's history as a murderer. We are hoping Netanyahu will remember whom he is dealing with and will present a more rigid guideline of negotiation. Arafat and his followers should recognize that Israel cannot be divided into any more pieces. JUDY BRETON Alon Shvut, Israel
...good thing about a democracy [WORLD, June 10] is that it lets people make a choice; the bad thing is that their choice may very well be the worst possible one. Many of the people who voted for Netanyahu hope that maybe this hard-line perennial Zionist can make peace with the Arabs without any land concessions. Netanyahu is more of a seasoned politician than a war hero. He promised the people everything they wanted to hear, and he fed the public's hunger for assurance of its territorial security. But history will prove that the Jewish people, as well...