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Zip Your address 112 FRINY .II INF 4 1484 Post Gives 2 Sides Of Palestinian Voting n an editorial and an op- ed piece, the Washington Post has presented both sides of the debate on the Israeli government's offer for elections to be held among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The editorial lauded the Israeli peace plan as "conse- quential" and "the only mov- ing vehicle of Middle East diplomacy." It said Israeli doves are "leery" of the plan because it may help Israel "escape American pressure and evade the territorial issue," and Israeli hawks distrust it "because they fear it will put Israel on the slip- pery slope leading to a Palestinian West Bank state." "The American obligation," stated Post editors, "is to make the plan work for American purposes: to make it a reliable instrument of the Palestinian will, to use it to produce a negotiation that will terminate the Palesti- nian uprising and the Israeli occupation alike, and to bring Palestinians a West Bank homeland in conditions pro- tective of Israeli security." But an article on the Post's op-ed page concluded that the elections offered by Israel "will be nothing but a device for perpetuating Israeli oc- cupation" of the West Bank and Gaza. Bassam AbuSharif, iden- tified by the Post as "a senior PLO official and a spokesman for Yassir Arafat," wrote that free elections can only be held in a climate "without restric- tions, threats or any form of intimidation. This is impossi- ble in the West Bank and Gaza, where any gathering, even of only five people, can be broken up with bullets. Nor is it possible when Palestinians who try to prac- tice their right to freedom of expression are liable to pro- secution." Free elections also require, wrote AbuSharif, "a set of rules that safeguards those elections." In 1976, he said, the PLO agreed to elections for West Bank municipal councils. Of the 116 can- didates victorious in 1976 West Bank municipal council elections, 96, he said, backed the PLO. Israeli authorities, he charged, subsequently tried to assassinate three of the elected mayors and deported two others to Jordan. Recent statements by Israel's prime minister and defense minister, said AbuSharif, confirm Palesti- nians' suspicions that if "they make the wrong choice, it will not be respected" by Israelis. Chasidim Cool Off In N.H. For Christians, there is the Bethlehem of the West Bank. For certain Chasidic Jews, mostly from Brooklyn, there is Bethlehem, New Hamp- shire, a small town in the White Mountains that boasts the Arlington Hotel, a rest spot that caters to Chasidim. The hotel is featured in New England Monthly, where it is described as a place that "most leisure-seeking Americans would find . . . barren, a cultural moon- scape." The Arlington lacks tennis, shopping, air- conditioning. Its rooms are "cramped and furnished with iron bed-steads and rummag- ed dressers." And its pool is "surrounded by a 15-foot chain-link fence draped with plastic tarps, and the men and women swim separately." But because Chasidim, ac- cording to author Barry Werth, "are determinedly the opposite of most leisure- seeking Americans, nothing `is' missing here. The Chasidim may be the last peo- ple in America who go to the mountains to sit on a porch, read a newspaper in their native language, clothe themselves in the comfort of their community, take family meals, then walk no place special just so they can breath the air and feel the rustling wind." Now, with "condo hamlets" springing up everywhere around Bethlehem, writes Werth, "it is only a matter of time .. . before small, marginal hotels like the Arl- ington will be swept away. After all, if there's anything the leisure industry abhors its an anachronism . . . " Israelis Bicker Over Rushdie Book's Publishing Israel, land of contrasts, held to its reputation in its reaction to the Salman Rushdie affair. According to an article in Fame magazine by Carlin Romano, Israelis disagree vehemently on whether Rushdie's book, The