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...leaders of Israel's settlement movement are preparing for a fight over Netzarim, and have called for "active resistance," as yet undefined, to any effort to uproot the hamlet. Given Rabin's position, the campaign may be , premature -- but not by much. "Anybody with brains in his head knows that when it comes to the final status," says Dromi, "some settlements will have to go." Netzarim will probably lead the list...
...anything, it is that Syria can't be trusted. The President won't say so publicly. The incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says it all the time. Despite their shared skepticism, Clinton and Helms view the future differently. In concert with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton is pushing an Israeli-Syrian peace treaty. Like Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Helms dismisses the process as a "fraud." Syria, says Netanyahu, wants Israelis "resting in peace, not living in peace...
...agreement with Syria is ever reached, Rabin promises a national referendum to ratify it. His chances will improve immeasurably if the U.S. agrees to station troops on the Golan to monitor the deal. Clinton has indicated he would send them, but political realities dictate that Congress approve the deployment, and Helms is only one of many who say no. "Just like in Beirut, our forces would be an inviting target for extremists out to derail the peace even if Syria itself really favors it," says New York Senator Al D'Amato, whose views on the matter are respected by other...
While some Israeli commentators see the conflict in the Gaza Strip as the beginning of the end for Hamas and other fundamentalist radicals, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government is alarmed by the developments. "Last Friday opened Israeli minds to how fragile the whole peace process is," said Uri Dromi, director of the Government Press Office. "And Rabin is also invested in this. What can he tell the Israeli people? That he was wrong to make peace with Arafat...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Washington on a two-day visit, got some good news from President Clinton, who said he would seek to include U.S. troops in any peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights. The chairman- presumptive of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Jesse Helms, had earlier raised questions about the wisdom of such a U.S. mission and called the Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations a "fraud...