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with Chicago politics were will-
ing to say openly and enthusias-
tically that this was not even
close to a "classic" Cook County
election.
Arab voters, election officials
and local police were prideful, in-
tentionally demonstrating that
this was not a typical Middle
Eastern Arab election where civic
responsibility meant "rubber
stamping' the incumbent presi-
dent or party. The rule of law was
observed and civic responsibility
promoted.
In the weeks before the coun-
cil election, candidate campaigns
were lively with literature, pam-
phlets, and banners everywhere.
No violence was exhibited at any
of the campaign rallies prior to
the elections.
By comparison, in the Egypt-
ian national election held last No-
vember, more than 20 civilians
died and dozens more were in-
jured.
Most Palestinians understood
that these elections did not select
an independent parliament. The
source of authority for the elect-
ed council is the Israeli military
administration. Nonetheless, this
election and the preparations for
it did infuse into the Arab popu-
lation of the West Bank, Gaza
Strip, and East Jerusalem a
sense of personal entitlement to
participate in determining their
own future.
Political science literature sug-
gests that democracies do not
usually attack other democracies.
There is a high degree of debate
and therefore restraint imposed
upon democracies before they at-
tack one another. The Israeli
newspaper Ha'aretz may have
been a bit premature when it
stated in an editorial the day af-
ter the election that "Israel can
be satisfied that another demo-
cratic entity has been founded in
the Middle East whose democ-
ratic base will be hard to uproot."
These Palestinian elections did
not create an independent Pales,
tinian parliament bounded by a
bill of rights with an independent
judiciary, free press, and checks
on the executive branch of gov-
ernment. But this election was
not "A Fraud and a Hoax," as er-
roneously pre-judged by The
Jerusalem Post editorial the day
before the elections.
Promoting individual rights,
which many Palestinians open-
ly advocated, opposes the concept
of communal identity, the core of
faith advocated by militant Is-
lamic groups. One quarter of the
elected council members charac-
terize themselves as indepen-
dents, not automatically
assenting to a view expressed by
Mr. Arafat.
A villager in Rammoun sum-
marized it succinctly when he
said, "We want a strong govern-
ment that will speak for us, but
not one that will put a stick on
our heads; the Israelis, the Jor-
danians, the British, and the Ot-
tomans did that to us during this
century.
It is enough." 0
Moroccan Family
Is Compensated
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel has
agreed to compensate the family
of a Moroccan waiter mistaken-
ly killed by the Mossad, Israel's
foreign intelligence service.
Bringing to an end what was
known for 23 years as the "Lille-
hammer Episode," Israeli lawyer
Amnon Goldenberg signed an
agreement with the family of
Ahmed Bouchiki, who was shot
dead by Mossad agents in 1973
in Lillehammer, Norway.
Under the terms of the agree-
ment, the two sides agreed to
keep secret the exact amount of
compensation Israel would make
to Mr. Bouchiki's family.
But the Israeli daily Ha'aretz
cited Norwegian officials who put
the figure at some $400,000 —
a sum Israeli sources said "sound-
ed reasonable."
The money will be divided be-
tween Mr. Bouchiki's widow, To-
rii., their daughter and his son
from a previous marriage.
Toril Bouchiki, who was preg-
nant at the time, was with her
husband the night he was killed.
The two had been walking
home from a movie, when two
Mossad agents opened fire,
killing him.
The agents had mistaken Mr.
Bouchiki for Hassan Salameh, a
Palestinian terrorist believed to
have masterminded the 1972
massacre of Israeli athletes at the
Munich Olympics.
Mr. Salameh was killed in a
1979 car-bomb explosion in
Lebanon.
Five Israeli agents were con-
victed and served short jail sen-
tences in connection with
Bouchiki's slaying.
But Israel never took respon-
sibility for the attack.
Nonetheless, in the wake of
growing pressure from members
of Mr. Bouchiki's family as well
as from the Norwegian govern-
ment, Israel decided to address
the issue.
While still not taking respon-
sibility for the killing, Prime Min-
ister Shimon Peres directed
attorney Goldenberg to negotiate
on Israel's behalf with the Bouch-
iki family in what he described
as a "humanitarian gesture."
Israel's ambassador to Norway
told the Israeli daily Ha'aretz that
the Bouchiki family, in accepting
the compensation, would not sub-
mit any further claims against
Israel.