New York Post-July 6, 2000
CLINTON'S ARROGANT PLOY
President Clinton has summoned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and PLO leader Yasser Arafat to Camp David next week for a summit
that, he says, is meant to "seize the moment" in order to "start
drawing the contours of the long-awaited peace."
Translated from diplo-speak, this is what the president said: "I
have six months left in office. There will be Mideast �peace'
before I leave. My wife's political future could depend on it -
and never mind Israeli security concerns."
What does Clinton think there is to talk about? Didn't Arafat's
central council just endorse his decision effectively to blow off
the current negotiating process and unilaterally declare a
Palestinian state - comprised of the entire West Bank and Gaza,
as well as east Jerusalem - on Sept. 13?
Certainly Arafat's aides are clear as to what will happen if
Israel responds - as Barak has threatened - by annexing existing
Jewish settlements.
"We have to change the rules of the game, even if that means a
confrontation," said one top PLO official. Another declared that
any annexation move by Israel would be "a declaration of war."
Arafat understands full well that Bill Clinton wants a permanent
agreement between Israel and the PLO in place before the November
elections: Clinton wants to deliver a political gift to both Al
Gore and Hillary Clinton.
He's also seeking a foreign affairs "legacy," though how gently
history will treat him if he forces Israel into a settlement of
the sort he's now cobbling together is an open question.
Barak - who was swept into office with the backing of Team
Clinton, including the odious James Carville -
wants desperately to help the president deliver those gifts to
Gore and Mrs. Clinton. "We'll do our best to have an agreement
before the 13th of September," he said yesterday.
Arafat understands the timetable at work and the reason for it.
He's trying to goad Clinton into pressuring Israel - and Barak
into making those concessions - so as to forestall it.
Barak's refusal to keep even his Cabinet fully informed of his
intentions has cost him vital political support. Interior
Minister Natan Sharansky yesterday resigned to protest Barak's
policies - and said he's taking his party out of Barak's ruling
coalition.
The problem is that Arafat & Co. have shown no sign that they're
willing to show flexibility. On the contrary: Their positions on
all of the key issues - statehood, Jerusalem, settlements, the
so-called "right of return" - have hardened in recent weeks.
Moreover, their public words are steeped in the rhetoric of
violence. Following the declaration of a state, said one top
Arafat aide, there will be a war over Jerusalem and "no [Jewish]
settler will be able to return to his home."
Yet even as the Palestinians grow more intransigent, Barak
continues to offer them more and more in the way of concessions.
That's an open invitation to Clinton to press Israel to bargain
away its right to defend itself.
This summit is a prescription for disaster, unless the president
is prepared to call Arafat's bluff.
But if he were to do that, he'd have no electoral gift for
Hillary and Al - the beauty of the scheme being that Bill Clinton
himself will be long gone before the real bills come due.
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