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Referring to Israeli coop- eration with South African police, Tanenbaum explained, "Because Israel has devel- oped extraordinary skills in containing terrorism, there are many governments who turn to Israel for training of their police for riot control. This includes Costa Rica, Panama, the Ivory Coast, Togo and South Africa. The South African contracts were originally training for police working to contain crime in white areas such as Johan- nesburg, Capetown, Durbin. Not black townships." Tanenbaum continued, "If anything Israel has helped civilize these cops. I have seen these kids. They come out of the Dutch commun- ities, believe that blacks are accursed by God, and that killing them is doing the na- tion a favor. Israel was trying to teach them that respon- sible riot control police use force as a last resort not a first resort. The tragedy is that their riot control train- ing has not gotten very far." Today, South Africa's riot police have been by-passed in favor of military units. Tanenbaum revealed that .while he was in South Africa, "We told [Foreign Minister] Pik Botha that it was uncon- scionable to send green sol- diers with rifles against rioters. The first thing they'll want to do is shoot. Had Israel trained those military units, they would have ended up using water cannons and tear gas instead of hot bullets killing people." Israel's involvement with the South African police has been relatively minor, accord- ing to Tanenbaum. "But I wish to God they would stop for all the obvious moral and political reasons," asserted Tanenbaum. "Israel does not even need to give a minor pretext to people to be scape- goated. They would be wise to put a moratorium on any cooperation with South Africa." Bishop Tutu in the inter- view took a similar stance. "The trade is almost sym- bolic," said Tutu. "But we are saying isolate South Africa as much as possible, militarily and in all other ways." Tutu acknowledged, "One does understand Israel of course, because she too has suffered a measure of isola- tion and must try to find friends where she can. But I think that this is costing her dear in terms of black percep- tions. You know what is hap- pening to black and Jewish relationships in this country and part of that is due to this South African-Israel connec- tion. I'm just saying that it is a pity because we have so many tremendous Jewish people in the struggle for justice and peace at home." Bishop Tutu, in the inter- view, also asserted that Israel can also end its col- laboration by being "far more supportive, more openly sup- portive of our own liberation struggle...firmly, firmly." On this issue too, it appears the Bishop is again singling out Israel apropos the Third World mentality. Israeli statements in the UN have repeatedly and loudly condemned Pretoria. Most of them resemble a re- cent promulgation by Israel's UN ambassador Benyamin Netanyahu: "Israel categor- ically condemns racism in all its forms, including Apar- theid [becuase] we are a peo- ple who have suffered more from murderous racism than any other." Jews have known slavery — in Africa in the time of our ancestors,in Europe in the time of our parents. For this reason they have a mandate to oppose Apartheid in all ways — regardless. If Bishop Tutu wants Israel to speak louder, perhaps she should. But in that case, Bishop Tutu must open his ears and listen. Right now his hearing and vi- sion is a little selective. ❑ Arabs' Ouster Backed In Poll Tel Aviv (JTA) — A survey of Jews in Israel concluded that more than half of those polled believe it is impossible to trust most Arabs. At the same time, about 47 percent of the respon- dents want Arabs to be encouraged to leave Israel. According to the Haifa Uni- versity study, 53 percent of those polled believed that Arabs don't value Jewish life and 44 percent asserted that Arabs will never be as advanced as Jews. Sixty percent of those surveyed favored greater supervision of Arabs, 24 percent favored deny- ing Arabs the right to vote, and 22 percent saw getting rid of the Arabs as the only solution. President Chaim Herzog, ad- dressing the final session of a day-long seminar on coexis- tancd, said that signs of racism on the fringes of Israeli society were a disgrace and a violation of Jewish heritage and the To- rah. The poll showed that 57 per- cent of those Jews questioned favored denying the right to vote to Zionist Jews who advo- cate a Palestinian state headed by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and that 70 per- cent think that non-Zionists should hay their citizenship taken away, whether they are Jewish or Arab. Most Arabs polled favored a PLO state but thought this should exist along side a Jewish — though non-Zionist — state, and they opposed the PLO's charter and terrorism.