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Los Angeles (JTA) — If
Michael Dukakis is elected
president, he will never ac-
cept a unilaterally declared
Palestinian state nor a role
for the Palestine Liberation
Organization, unless it fully
renounces terrorism.
The assurance was given by
Kitty Dukakis, often describ-
ed as her husband's closest
confidante, to 1,600 en-
thusiastic listeners at
Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
"I have been married to
Michael for 25 years and 2
months, and I can tell you
that he has never wavered in
his support of Israel,"
Dukakis said. "He feels that
Israel's fate is our fate, and if
Israel is threatened, all of us
are threatened."
As an example of her hus-
band's commitment, Kitty
Dukakis cited his record as
the first governor in the coun-
try to bar any company from
doing business with his Mas-
sachusetts unless it renounc-
ed the Arab economic boycott
of Israel.
Dukakis' voice rose as she
declared emphatically that
her husband "has never made
and will never make a secret
deal with anyone."
The remark apparently
sought to reassure the
predominantly Jewish au-
dience that Dukakis had not
enlisted the support of the
Rev. Jesse Jackson by truckl-
ing to the black leader's pro-
Palestinian views.
Kitty Dukakis, who is
Jewish, told guests at a clos-
ed reception preceding the
talk that she and her hus-
band should not be looked
upon as role models on ques-
tions of intermarriage.
Some interpreted her com-

Kitty Dukakis: Close confidante.

meat to mean that her mar-
riage to a non-Jew was a
matter of personal choice that
should not serve as a
guideline on the pros and
cons of intermarriage.
She has a son, John, from
her first marriage, who is
Jewish. Two other Dukakis
children, Andrea and Kara,
have been exposed to both her
Jewish and the governor's
Greek Orthodox upbringings.

Some Jewish leaders have
spoken out against the cou-
ple, claiming their intermar-
riage sets a bad example for
Jewish youngsters.
But Rabbi Harvey J. Fields,
religious leader of the host
Reform congregation, was
more struck by his guest's ob-
vious pride in her Jewishness
and her fond recollections of
her grandparents, who came
to America from a small
shtetl near Kiev.
"She emphasized how pro-
ud she would be to hold the
first seder in the history of
the White House," he said.

Polls Show Israeli Voters
Moving To The Right

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(JTA) — Although
23.4 percent of the Israeli
electorate is still undecided, a
recent poll shows that voters
are moving to the right.
The results of 30 polls
published in May, July and
September were analyzed Fri-
day in the daily Hadashot,
along with the newspaper's
own poll. Hadashot made the
disclaimer that its survey's
methods were not statistical-
ly precise.
Support for the Labor Par-
ty stood at 31.4 percent in
September, compared with
31.8 percent in May. Support

peaked in July at 32.2 per-
cent.
Likud was favored by 34.2
percent of the voters in
September, down from 34.9
percent in July and 36.3 per-
cent in May.
While the gap between the
two major parties is small,
the most recent polls indicate
that Likud and the parties
likely to join a Likud-led
coalition would receive 57.3
percent of the vote, compared
with 44.9 percent for Labor
and its potential allies.
On the right wing of the
political spectrum, the most