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WAR OF NERVES

From the Editorial of the July-August 1997 issue of THE OTHER ISRAEL

Diplomatic duels - Facts on the ground - Pulling the purse strings
Alliance and counter-alliance - Scandals and crises - A fractured society

Deadly deadlock

The Har Homa crisis has been going on for four months now, and there is no sign of its ending any time soon. Netanyahu has not been able to force the Palestinians "back to normal" while the bulldozers continue the work at Har Homa, nor did Arafat make much headway in stopping those bulldozers -- and in the meantime anger and despair mount among the Palestinians, Hamas is again growing stronger and among the Palestinian policemen themselves underground cells have reportedly been formed to resume the armed struggle against the settlers.

And still, the all-out clash which everybody has been discussing in detail did not yet come about. It could happen in September, the time when Netanyahu is supposed to announce the second "redeployment" of military forces. By offering to withdraw from a significant part of the West Bank, Netanyahu would still be able to reverse the drift to war -- but such a concession is out of the question with the kind of government he heads. It is far more likely that he will try once more to offer the Palestinians only an insulting pittance, as he did in March, and that may well prove the last straw.

If and when that war does break out, it might well get the name "The Har Homa War." But in fact, at stake is far more than a single hill south-east of Jerusalem, a once green hill whose beauty has already been irrevocably damaged by the industrious bulldozers. Political circumstances have made that hill into the symbol and focus of all the fundamental issues: a Jewish-only Jerusalem, or a city shared between two peoples; unrestricted land grabbing and settlement construction, or a respect for the land and its inhabitants; a series of truncated enclaves, or a viable Palestinian state with a continuous territory; Israeli domination and oppression stretching on into the next decade, together with the inevitably sharpening conflict -- or an arrangement at least resembling parity between two states and two peoples.

The Editors

THE OTHER ISRAEL is the newsletter of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

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Editor: Adam Keller
Coeditor: Beate Zilversmidt

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