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...Call us when you're serious about peace. Here's our number." Tough talk from the U.S. Secretary of State to the Israeli Prime Minister a few weeks back. But just talk. Yitzhak Shamir and his hard-line colleagues have shrugged off worse from Washington before. So they sat tight, and last Wednesday their arrogance was rewarded. Baker's studied pique was undermined by Washington's suspension of its dialogue with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. It would now appear that the U.S. is talking to neither side in the Arab-Israeli dispute, a stance that at best...
...Shamir is the one who really needs a clubbing from Washington. The policy guidelines of his right-wing government enshrine the central obstacle to peace: Jerusalem's insistence on the "eternal" claim of Israel to hold and settle the occupied territories...
...what does Bush do? Last week he sent Shamir a letter. Tell me, Prime Minister, asked the President, are you "serious" about peace? The answer, of course, is yes. As ever, Shamir is serious about a Shamir-style peace, a nonstarter that assumes Palestinian capitulation...
...time for a change. As long as the U.S. funnels $3 billion a year to Israel regardless of Jerusalem's actions, Shamir will never move. A message stronger than a phone number is required. If an aid cut is politically impossible -- as was made evident when Senator Robert Dole first suggested a modest decrease last January -- then several other measures might capture Jerusalem's attention...
...onetime Likud moderate who criticized the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Levy switched to a hard line when Shamir proposed a peace plan last year, and as Housing Minister he secretly subsidized the Jewish settlement in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem's Old City last April. Levy has never hidden his desire to become Prime Minister, though polls rank him near the bottom of lists of ; leading candidates. His new job could change that perception -- or cement...