Israel

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Voting On The Golan

Are Israelis prepared for a referendum on
withdrawal from the Golan Heights?

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he Rabin government's
announcement that a na-
tional referendum would
be held on any "signifi-
cant withdrawal" from the
Golan Heights has created quite
a stir — even by Israeli stan-
dards.
For days now, hardly an in-
terview, phone-in, or talk show,
op-ed page, coffee klatch, or din-
nertable conversation has not
been dominated by the subject.
It even became the heart of a
sales gimmick by Ma'ariv, ,

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for the swarm of banners and
bumper stickers opposing any
withdrawal from the Golan,
was delighted by the decision
because many of their leaders
are members of Labor kibbutz-
im who believe that a referen-
dum would permit them to
remain on the Golan without a
right-wing government coming
to power.
Their confidence that the Is-
raeli people would roundly re-
ject a pullback from the Golan
Heights was shared by the

which ran a "referendum" of its
own requiring participants to
buy and clip a coupon out of the
paper — creating yet another
controversy when its editors in-
sisted that their highly unsci-
entific and unsupervised poll
would be a valid indication of
the national mood.
Yet although most of the dis-
cussion naturally centered on
why Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin had decided on a refer-
endum and what its outcome
would be, many of the com-
ments related to the deeper im-
pact of the idea on the changing
face of Israel's democracy and
Israeli life in general.
On the purely political level,
the response to the announce-
ment cut across political lines
in odd ways. The movement
known as the "Golan Head-
quarters," which is responsible

right-wing Likud and Tsomet
parties. But they, nonetheless,
opposed a referendum on the
grounds that the issue would be
better used to win an election,
not just see the Labor govern-
ment embarrassed but remain
in power.
On the left, few people were
brave enough to predict a ring-
ing victory in a referendum —
though a Yediot Aharonot poll
published last Friday showed
that a surprisingly high 37 per-
cent of the electorate were al-
ready in favor of a full
withdrawal in return for a full
peace with Syria, though even
Prime Minister Rabin had not
yet endorsed that position. Still,
leftist fears of losing a referen-
dum were prudently muted in
favor of other arguments
against the idea.
Considering that the last few

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