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Hamas immediately denounced the peace plan, saying, "We will never agree to be part of this game." So far, Hamas and other rejectionists have not mounted major demonstrations, but they will be heard from after they lay their plans to disrupt coming elections for the Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority. Ten of the rejectionist groups met in Beirut last week to plot strategy...
...himself into a moderate in order to make peace and will have to curb his radical enemies. Still, they make it clear that they intend to do what they can to derail the interim plan. "We resisted the Israeli occupation," says Riad Malki, a West Bank spokesman for the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, "and we will resist Palestinian autonomy...
...success or lack of success of negotiations with the other Arab delegations. I don't feel that Syria is ready for a full-fledged peace and a peace treaty that will stand on its own. Many Israelis wonder how Syria can be involved in the peace negotiations while allowing rejectionist Palestinian organizations with headquarters in Damascus to call for the Palestinians to withdraw from those negotiations. Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control...
...moment, Israeli authorities calculate that the naysayers are a bigger problem to Arafat and his appointed negotiators than to the Israelis. Last month chief Palestinian negotiator Haidar Abdul-Shafi echoed a rejectionist demand that his camp "would be happy" to have Palestinians decide in a plebiscite whether to continue in the talks. Such a poll is unlikely to take place -- not least of all because the P.L.O. is not apt to turn such matters over to a public vote. But Abdul-Shafi's remark reflected uneasiness among the delegates over their lack of a popular mandate...
...Inaugural Address. There is no need to say to those who demur, "Love it or leave it." They have already left, for internal exile. If there are Americans who feel as alienated as the Amish, let them live like the Amish -- without harassment, but without subsidized proselytizing for their rejectionist world views. America has business -- noble business -- to attend...