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HE JEWISH NEWS
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SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
JULY 27, 1984
the race begins
Democracy flourishes but government
flounders as the two major Israeli
parties scramble to form a coalition.
Staff report
Yitzhak Shamir ponders the election
results.
It's far easier to determine who
the losers are in Israel's elections this
week than the winners. Unfortu-
nately, the major losers are those Is-
raelis who had hoped that the vote
would lead to a resolution of some of
the serious problems facing the
Jewish state — chiefly, the economy
and its 400 percent inflation rate, a
means of withdrawing troops from
Lebanon, and new initiatives in the
peace process with neighboring
states.
It now seems likely, though, that
whichever government is formed —
led by Likud, Labor or even a na-
tional unity coalition — will be weak,
highly unstable, ideologically scat-
tered and probably short-lived.
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Though the Labor Party, led by
Shimon Peres, won the most seats, 44
or 45, they are considered the big los-
ers in Monday's election. "Labor's
ability to throw away victory after
everything that has happened under
Likud — the failure of the Lebanon
war, the 400 percent inflation rate,
the disappearance of its historical
founder Menachem Begin — really
says something," noted Israeli politi-
cal analyst and former Detroiter
Daniel Elazar, who called the elec-
tion results a "major defeat" for
Labor.
"I think you could say that the
Likud has become the majority party
in Israel," he continued, "in the sense
that it can hold voters in the face of
the most incredible disasters. Labor
has to be seen as the party of the last
generation and Likud the party of the
new generation. Labor is seen as the
establishment that people do not
want to come back."
This trend can be seen most
clearly in analyzing the votes of
Sephardim, who now make up the
majority of Jews in Israel, and who
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Unrepentant preacher
At a Detroit church, Rev. Louis
Farrakhan continued his outspoken
obsession with Jews.
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Special to The Jewish News
Louis Farrakhan, the Black
Muslim leader who revels in being
"the most censured and repudiated
black man in the history of America,"
can add another layer of tarnish to
his self-annointed halo.
Speaking Monday night before a
predominantly enthusiastic, black
audience of 4,000tiich filled the .
sanctuary, halls, bas ment and out-
side areas adjacent to Detroit's Little
Rock Baptist Church, Farrakhan de-
livered a sermon reminiscent of the
1930s heyday of Nazi-supporting
Father Charles E. Coughlin. •
In the course of his fiery talk,
which matched in intensity the tem-
perature of the sweltering crowd,
Farrakhan continued his obsession
with the Jews. He blamed the Jews
for virtually every difficulty affect-
ing blacks, from the forced resigna-
tion earlier that day of "Miss
America," Vanessa Williams, to
being responsible for black alcohol
abuse. _-
Farrakhan, early in his speech,
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