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The calibration of Peres' reaction reflects his dilemma that whichever way he moves, he has everything to lose. If his answer to the bombings is too soft, his constituents will throw him out of power as punishment and elect an opposition that threatens to freeze if not reverse the peace...
Peres has intensified the pressure on Arafat to perform. Previously, the Prime Minister insisted that the peace process should continue regardless of the level of terrorism. Now he has explicitly linked continued concessions to the Palestinian Authority's success in breaking the Islamists. He has also indefinitely sealed Israel's...
But what if this offensive against Hamas by Arafat ultimately proves as ineffectual and half-hearted as those of the past? Despite Peres' threat, Israeli officers are loath to blatantly re-enter land under P.A. control and risk a broad confrontation between Israel's forces and Arafat's. The military...
Adding to his tactical difficulties, Peres has a credibility problem. He has a reputation in Israel for being weak on security issues. In part, this is because he was never a combat soldier, unlike many other prominent Israeli political figures. His penchant for making dreamy, naive predictions about "the new...
Peres must be concerned, however, with the effect of any radical punishment on Arafat's standing among his own people, who tend to hold him accountable for the excesses of his Israeli partners. "It's in the interest of the government to pressure Arafat but not to deliver a knockout...