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Yasser's headache
Growing frustration at being ignored is heard in the Palestinian rhetoric about Hebron.
ERIC SILVER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
Jerusalem
Is Yasser Arafat, until recently a dominating figure on the Israeli political agenda, now out in the cold? The Palestinian Authority president has complained to United States diplomats that Bibi Netanyahu addresses King Hussein of Jordan, President
Mr. Arafat has an unequivocal message of his own. The Palestinian leader is not prepared to renegotiate the explosive issue of Hebron.
The previous Israeli government signed an agreement to withdraw from most of the Arab sections of Jerusalem, while keeping troops in place to protect
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and sundry Gulf sheiks, but has still sent no one of weight to talk to Palestinian leaders.
Mr. Arafat is insulted by the grudging way the Israeli prime minister speaks about him, as if he were still a pariah, as if the Oslo accords, the handshake on the White House lawn, all the face-to-face meetings in the Gaza buffer zone had never happened.
He dismisses his session with Dore Gold, Mr. Netanyahu's foreign policy adviser, as a waste of time. Mr. Gold, he said, read out a list of five points the prime minister wanted to convey, but had no mandate to discuss them or to explore alternatives. He was a messenger, not a negotiator.
And the Palestinians are disturbed that in the five weeks between Mr. Netanyahu's election victory and his visit to Washington last week, he announced no substantive decisions on such outstanding issues as the closure of the Green Line border to Palestinian workers, the delayed redeployment in Hebron and a negotiating timetable.
On at least one of these points,
A Palestinian boy and his sister pass by right-wing Jewish settler graffiti in Hebron.
the 450 Jev\dsh settlers who live alongside the 150,000 Palestinians. The redeployment was postponed (with Mr. Arafat's acquiescence) after the recent terrorist suicide bombings.
Mr. Netanyahu's aides have indicated that the prime minister is ready in principle to honor the commitment, but not on the terms endorsed by his Labor predecessor, Shimon Peres.
Mr. Arafat insists that the deal is closed. The Palestinians accepted some things they didn't like, the Israehs accepted some things they didn't like. Then they signed on the dotted line. Now it's time to pull out of the only West Bank city still imder occupation, then to move on to the unfinished business of peace.
The irony is that, to all intents and purposes, the Israelis have already abandoned Arab Hebron. The only Israeli soldiers seen are manning roadblocks near the Jewish enclave or making sure that no one gets too close to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, now "closed for repairs," a sure sign of expectations that troubles will come. □