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Measure Off Faith
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Fascists, a campaign surpas-
sed in savagery only by the
mass extermination of Jews.
The Balkan front was no
sideshow; the turbulent inva-
sion and civil war brought to
power the only East European
Communist regime with broad
support.
Last month Mr. Waldheim
finally admitted misleading
the world with clainis that he
was released from military
service in 1941. Even so, the
truth did not come all at once.
First he said he was a mere in-
terpreter on the staff of Gen.
Alexander Lohr, an Austrian
later executed for Balkan war
crimes. Then Mr. Waldheim
had to confirm evidence that
he prepared battlefield re-
ports and was indeed aware of
hostage shootings and depor-
tations of Jews. Documents
now surfacing suggest he was
assigned to a unit that took
part in reprisal killings and
the mass deportation of
Salonika's Jews.
Uglier even than Mr. Wal-
dheim's deceptions are his
new attempts to portray con-
queror and conquered as
guilty of equal crimes. Mr.
Waldheim has every right to
try to rescue honor from the
emerging record. But he can
hardly blame the world for
wishing he would go off and
do it in private.
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The economic situation in Israel,
the public reaction to the coali-
tion, the uniqueness of the Day-
light Savings dispute draw spe-
cial attention to Israel this
Passover. season.
It is a democracy in action that
is involved in the dramatic de-
velopments. Naturally, Prime
Minister Shimon Peres has a role
of major importance in the status
of an Israel that always confronts
difficulties and usually sur-
mounts them.
In an article in the New York
Times which has an appropri-
ately - defined headline, "Politics
with a Penchantfor Melodrama,"
the newspaper's Israel corre-
spondent, Thomas L. Friedman,
wrote in part:
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In a way, Mr. Peres has been
a victim of his own success. It
is largely because of his ef-
forts that the coalition gov-
ernment has achieved the
level of economic reform and
public calm that it has. At the
same time, though, he could
not have done it without a na-
tional unity Cabinet to work
through. As a result, the Is-
raeli public wants to hold onto
this Cabinet at almost any
price, even if Mr. Pere& and
Mr. Shamir have to switch
jobs in October.
Israelis have already sac-
rificed too much — 25 percent
of their real wages in many
cases — to get inflation down
from 400 percent to 20 percent.
They are not prepared to let
the politicians, for their own
narrow interests, risk squan-
dering it. Without both major
parties joined in a bipartisan
effort to administer the very
harsh medicine needed to cure
the Israeli economy, no
Cabinet would have the cour-
age or the support required to
sustain the economic reforms.
And the public would approve
a break up of the coalition
only on an issue of war or
peace.
There is another public out-
cry against coalition politics
in the making — over the issue
of daylight saving time. The
ultra-Orthodox Minister of
Interior, Rabbi Yitzhak
Peretz, is refusing to institute
the system because it would
mean that the Sabbath would
end around 9 p.m. on Satur-
day — so late that many
people would be tempted to
violate it. Both Mr. Peres and
Mr. Shamir, afraid to alienate
the tiny religious parties
needed to build future coali-
tions, have refused to force
Rabbi Peretz's hand — even
though the vast majority of Is-
raelis want to set their clocks
ahead an hour in order to start
the day in the cool of the
morning and end it earlier,
avoiding an hour's work in the
heat of the late afternoon.
The public has started to re-
volt against the so-called
"tyranny of the Orthodox."
The post office, the Manufac-
turers Association, supermar-
kets, insurance companies,
banks, even the entire towns
of Eilat and Kfar Saba, have
unilaterally declared that they
are going over to summer day-
light saving time, no matter
what Rabbi Peretz and the
Cabinet say.
"What we are seeing in the
public's reaction's;" remarked
a philosopher, David
Hartman, "is a revolt against a
system of coalition politics
which has lost touch with
what people are feeling and
what they can put up with."
What the reactions also tell
us, he added, is that there may
now be a constituency of Is-
raelis who are beyond party
politics, who define their iden-
tities independently of party
squabbles and, who are look-
ing for a national statesman to
surface above the party politi-
cians.If ever there was a defini-
tion for genuine democracy in
public sentiments, it is indicated
in the spirit indicated in the
views of citizens on their gov-
ernment and on public officials.
The Daylight Savings attitude is
especially unique. It is not an
anarchism when people express a
preference for common sense. At
any rate, if democracy invites de-
bate and definition, Israel pro-
vides it.
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Limericks: Bible's
Humorous Themes
When George Pierrot intro-
duced some of his limericks to
gatherings in our home, the very
theme of his resort to the risque
and somewhat bawdy was lost in
the appreciation of his expertness
as a limericist.
For some time his widow Helen
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