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How would Israelis respond
if, like Prime Minister
Shamir in Washington this
week, they were asked to open
negotiations with the PLO
and be prepared to make ter-
ritorial concessions in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip?
Last week, a poll commis-
sioned by the Peace Now
movement revealed that 20.8
percent of the Israeli
respondents would be ready
for immediate, unconditional
talks with the PLO.
A further 66 percent would
support talks under certain
conditions — 56 percent
demanding a complete halt to
terrorism — and 10 percent in-
sisting on an unambiguous
PLO recognition of Israel's
right to exist.
Having trumpeted this in-
formation to the media, Peace
Now declared that it would
stage a march through the
center of Jerusalem to de-
mand that Shamir represent
"this large part of the nation"
when he meets with Presi-
dent Bush.
To the embarrassment of
the peace activists, however,
the head of Teleseker, the
company which conducted the
poll, announced that Peace
Now had been somewhat par-
tial in its disclosure of the
findings.
Not everyone, according to
figures supplied independent-
ly by the pollster, believed
that talks with the PLO were
a historic inevitability.
Just 37 percent of
respondents felt that the PLO
was the representative of
Palestinian inhabitants of the
occupied territories, while ful-
ly 47 percent believed that an
alternative Palestinian
leadership could be fostered
or imposed.
Finally, noted the pollster,
Peace Now had neglected to
point out that more than half
of the respondents — 54 per-
cent — agreed with Shamir's
statement that Peace Now's
actions were aiding Israel's
enemies.
The previous week, yet
another poll demonstrated a _
far harder line among Jewish
respondents, with 56 percent
stating emphatically that
there was "no room for talks
with the PLO:' The same poll
showed that 17 percent would
support negotiations with the
PLO on the subject of creating
a Palestinian state in Jordan,
while 12 percent would sup-
port talks aimed a creating
autonomy in the West Bank
and Gaza.
Just seven percent would
support official contacts with
the PLO "for some other ob-
jective" and eight percent
would be prepared to
countenance the creation of
an independent Palestinian
state in the territories.
Yet another poll, this one
conducted by the respected
Hanoch Smith Organization,
supported the general percep-
tion of a drift to the right, of-
fering little comfort for the
Labor Party in general and
its beleaguered leader,
Shimon Peres, in particular.
The poll showed a signifi-
cant growth in public support
for Shamir's Likud Party,
with Labor taking a concomi-
tant slide.
Since last November's elec-
tion, according to Smith, the
only pollster to have accurate-
ly predicted the first Likud
victory in 1977, support for
Shamir's Likud bloc. had
grown from 34 percent to 37
percent, while support for
Labor had declined from 31.5
percent to 27 percent.
— Helen Davis
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Sweden Cites
Radio Islam
New York (JTA) — The at-
torney general of Sweden fil-
ed charges last week against
an Islamic radio station there
for stirring up anti-Semitic
feelings in its broadcasts, the
World Jewish Congress has
reported.
Attorney General Hans
Stark filed the charges
against Radio Islam, which is
broadcast by a Moslem
association in Stockholm. His
move followed complaints by
a nondenominational
Swedish committee against
anti-Semitism and by the
Simon Wiesenthal Center in
Los Angeles.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the
Wiesenthal Center's
associate dean, wrote a letter
to Swedish Prime Minister
Ingvar Carlsson in November
1987 expressing the center's
"deep concern over a recent
decision in Stockholm ,of the
council of local radio stations
to allow 'Radio Islam' to con- •
tinue broadcasts laden with
anti-Semitic invective."
The Wiesenthal Center
joined with Carlsson "in
favoring freedom of - expres-
sion and worship for all,"
Cooper wrote at the time. But
he said "that there is no place
in Sweden for the use of
Swedish airwaves for anti-
Jewish propaganda."
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