DANGEROUS GAME IN THE MIDEAST.(MAIN)

Byline: TOM TEEPEN

Alexander the Great simply whipped out his sword and cut the daunting Gordian knot. Newt the So-So, confronted with the tangle Israel and the Palestinians have got themselves into, is pulling on one end of the rope to make the thing tighter. The Middle East does not need this.

Sensing that Bill Clinton's inability to move the becalmed Oslo Accords has created a foreign policy vulnerability for the President, Gingrich is doing what he can to make the President's jeopardy all the greater. And figuring that in particular Clinton's effort to wrestle Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off the dime could cost Democrats with Jewish voters, …