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Fiiday, June' 19, 1981

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Israeli Politicians Vying for the Arab Voter

By CARL ALPERT

HAIFA — When the Is-
raeli voters go to the polls on
June 30 over 200,000 of the
voters will be members of
the Arab and Druze
minorities. They constitute
some 10 percent of the coun-
try's voters,-and if they were
to concentrate their voting
power on their own candi-
dates they could send 10 or
more- members to the Knes-

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set. However they are so di-
vided among themselves
that they may probably
field four or five separate
political parties vying for
that vote.
If the election results as a
whole should be very close,
the handful of Arab Knesset
members, no matter which
party they belong to, can be
the deciding factor as to
which side they will join in a
coalition and thereby en-
able the setting up of a gov-
ernment.
In the 1977 elections, the
largest part of the Arab vote
went to the Communist
party, Rakah, which seated
five members in the Knes-
set. It must be added that
Jews voted for Rakah, too,
and some of the legislators
elected on this ticket were
Jews. A separate Arab list,
affiliated to Labor, gained
one seat.
The remainder of the
minorities vote was split
among other existing
parties. A Druze candi-
date on Yadin's Demo-
cratic Movement slate
drew some of the votes
there. A Druze also ap-
peared on the Likud list.
Mapam included an Arab
on its Alignment list.
Surprisingly, a fairly
heavy Arab vote each year
goes to the Jewish National
Religious Party, headed by
Dr. Burg. The ultra-
conservative, patriarchal,
deeply-religious Moslem
families and blocs, faced
with the choice of voting for
the Communist or the Labor
Party, prefer to throw their
support to a conservative
party with religious princi-
ples, even if it is Jewish.
The _ influence of these
groups is waning gradually,
but again this year there
will be a measure of support
for the Orthodox, perhaps
enough to mean the dif-
ference for an additional
seat in the Knesset.
The Arabs are also aware
that the Ministry of the
Interior, which deals with
Arab affairs, has tradi-
tionally been under the con-
trol of the NRP.
In the past, Labor had al-
ways backed its own Arab
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are very far from being
real Communists.
increasingly
The
radicalized youth find the
Communist party not ex-
treme enough in its opposi-
tion to the government, and
these will probably boycott
the elections since the party
expressing their honest
platform would probably be
banned as seditious.
Arab independent far7—
mers, professionals
capitalists, land owners
cannot bring themselves to
vote Communist. A few of
them support the smaller
CARL ALPERT
liberal Jewish parties
that Arabs would prefer to whose platforms sometimes
vote for a Laborite running sound like Arab prop-
as an Arab. This year the aganda, but the Arab voters
decision was made not to know that those parties are
back a separate party, but to too small to exercise any
place an Arab candidate on real influence, and too small
their master list, and thus even to offer an Arab a seat
hope to attract the Arab to in the Knesset under their
the Peres-led list, this in auspices.
addition to the usual
This year they will have
no place - to go, and it is
Mapam Arab.
The Arab voters have Labor's hope that they will
their own problems and support the opposition to
considerations when it Begin and the Likud. Labor
comes to deciding on has set up a separate Arab
their political choices. In division which is waging a
recent years the Commu- powerful campaign in all
nist Party has provided the centers of Arab popula-
the outlet for those who tion.
The voting is all secret, of
sought to express their
dissatisfaction with the course, but when the ballots
Israel government, any are counted in cities and
Israel government. The towns which are composed
only way to do so legally entirely of Arab citizens,
was to vote Communist, one can see where the Arab
though most of the voters vote went.

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Iraqi Raid Congratulated

Editor, The Jewish News:
As a non-Jewish Ameri-
can citizen, I feel it is my
duty to convey to the state of
Israel and the Israeli mili-
tary my congratulations
and "hats off' for a job well
done.
In bombing the Iraqi nu-
clear site you have shown
not only your usual
perfectly-executed military
and political endeavor but
the
one done with
humanitarian thought for a
minimum loss of lives to
your
yourselves and
enemies.
When the allies, during
World War II, sabotaged the
German heavy water plant
in Telemark, Norway, with
the loss of many lives, we all
thought what a magnificent
feat. That was war. I wonder
what the world thinks the
state of Israel faces every
day if not out-and-out war?
It seems the Israeli gov-
ernment has learned from

the Lloyd George quote, It
is either too little, too late,
or both, and that is the
cause of disaster."
To deviate from this pol-
icy of apparent logic by
compromising to the emo-
tional dialogue of liberta-
rians in the face of such pro -
found adversity would be for
the Israeli nothing but ir-
revocable self-destruction.

Mary Jo Peterson

Jewish Prisoner
Executed in Iran

LONDON — An Iranian
Jew was executed last week
after accusations of traffick-
ing in drugs had been made_
against him by the Irania
government.
Azizolla Zahav, who had
been in jail since April, was
given no trial and received
no warning of his impend-
ing execution, according to
Kol Israel Radio.

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