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AMERICAN
CANCER
SOCIETY'

What, for instance is to pre-
vent "The People" from calling
a referendum on disqualifying
anyone but Jews from partici-
pating in such votes? Or, for
that matter, on granting voting
rights only to Israelis who have
served in the armed forces? Or
on forbidding the raising and/or
import of non-kosher meat? Or
on preventing women from
singing in public? (All those po-
sitions have, at some point,
been proposed or indeed or-
dered by some parliamentari-
an, minister, or government.)
And if the terms of referenda
are not subject to clearly estab-
lished outside (parliamentary
or judicial) review, under what
circumstances can the Knesset
or the Supreme Court overrule
their results?
Referendums could, of
course, work in the opposite di-
rection and curtail what many
Israelis regard as the "tyran-
ny of the minority," especially
in matters that come under the
rubric of "freedom from reli-
gion." The bets are on that if the
referendum mechanism is
passed into law, among the first
issues to be placed on the ballot
will be the separation of "reli-
gion and state," giving Israelis
the option of civil marriage and
divorce.
Ironically, it was the religious
Shas party that introduced the
idea of an extra-parliamentary
vote by demanding a referen-
dum on withdrawal from the
territories in its coalition agree-
ment with Labor. How their
constituents may be affected by
the broader use of such an in-
strument is certainly a point for
the religious parties to contem-
plate in deciding whether or not
to support a referendum law.
Yet perhaps the most inter-
esting point raised about creat-
ing a new tool of democracy in
Israel is the need to prepare the
people for what it means. With-
out sufficient preparation, pre-
dicts B. Michael, one of the
country's leading political
satirists, "when the People of Is-
rael are asked whether it sup-
ports a treaty or opposes it, 24
percent will reply 'Who's ask-
ing?' 17.4 percent will respond
`Why? What happened?' 31.8
percent will demand first to
know what the prize is, 16.5
percent will ask for a hint, and
10.3 percent will — as usual—
confess that they have no opin-
ion.
Joking aside, however, the
advent of the referendum will
force Israelis to revise the way
in which they perceive their
government and themselves.
Though many things have
changed in the past four
decades, one lingering aspect of
Israel's early years and diffi-
culties is the tendency to place
responsibility for absolutely
everything on the government.

Whenever anything goes
wrong, from floods to Scuds, the
finger of blame is always point-
ed at the powers that be.
When two teen-agers from
the wealthy suburb of Herzliya
Pituah recently murdered a taxi
driver, the problem was com-
monly traced to the failure of
"the educational system," not
the way the boys had been
raised at home. Whatever hurts
in Israel, the knee-jerk reaction
is that the remedy lies with "the
government."
But the referendum system
shifts at least the psychological
answerability for decisions from
the great "them" to the lowly
"us" — which will be no mean
adjustment for people who have
displayed great difficulty ac-
cepting responsibility for their
own affairs, to say nothing of
their country's future.
For this reason alone, it will
be interesting to see whether
the equally coveted and feared
referendum on the Golan, or
anything else, will indeed ever
take place.

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Israel Denies
Arms For Iran

Washington (JTA) — The
Israeli government has
again denied responsibility
for the secret sale of arms to
Iran during the Reagan ad-
ministration that later
mushroomed into the Iran-
Contra scandal.
The denial came in mate-
rial accompanying the long-
awaited final report on the
scandal, which was released
here by independent counsel
Lawrence Walsh. A
1,150-page document ac-
companying the report in-
cludes various Israeli
government officials' corn-
ments on the scandal.
In their 33 pages of corn-
ments, the Israelis criticize
sections of the report for giv-
ing what they describe as an
erroneous portrayal of cer-
tain aspects of the Iran-
Contra affair relating to
Israeli participation.
The officials commenting
include Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres, who was
prime minister at the time of
the Iran arms sales, and
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin.
The Israelis say the report
could leave the erroneous
impression that Israel, not
the United States, initiated
the sales of arms to Iran.
The Israelis acknowledge
that they did not receive
copies of the entire docu-
ment . LI

