His meetings last week with President Clinton and Yasser Arafat were roundly applauded for rebuilding relationships former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had soured, but David Plotz explains in Slate why Israelis are . In the Washington Post , Henry Kissinger warned Israelis not to leave the United States out of the peace process, while an op-ed piece in the Israeli paper Ha'aretz cautioned that congressional Republicans, under the sway of the right-wing Israeli Likud Party, will throw spikes into the newly energized peace train.