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raeli decision-makers to go
ahead.
Bear in mind that during in-
formal talks that ended in Wash-
ington last spring, Israelis and
Syrians agreed to establish mu-
tual demilitarization of territory,
buffer zones, time phases for a
Golan withdrawal, certain levels
of diplomatic relations, creation
of early warning systems as trip
wires to reduce possible con-
frontation, and some superviso-
ry apparatus to monitor one
another's actions.
Don't look for any
major breakthroughs
anytime soon.
Disagreements remain about
the size of demilitarized areas,
the working of the supervisory
apparatus, placement of thinned
out forces in and around the
Golan Heights, (un)willingness
of Damascus to clamp down on
terrorist groups under its do-
main, control of the Jordan Riv-
er's sources, and the connection
of a Syrian-Israeli agreement to
ending the presence of both in
Lebanon.
The issues are as many as they
are complex.
But as in previous negotia-
tions, the central remains: What
will
Israel obtain by returning ter-
ritory? However, unlike previ-
ously, the status quo will not lead
to progress.
For the near future, with Is-
raelis almost evenly divided on
exchanging the Golan for any
agreement, without incentives
for Syria to initiate full fledged
negotiations, and with Syrian
succession in question, look for
more motion than movement on
the Syrian-Israeli front.
❑
Greasy Palms
Is there an Israeli leader not suspected of
corruption?
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
el Aviv — To listen to the
news from Israel these
days, one would under-
standably believe that the
country is going through a gold-
en age of corruption and crimi-
nality.
Prime Minister Binyamin Ne-
tanyahu, his chief aide Avigdor
Lieberman, Likud activist David
Appel and Shas strongman Arye
Deri have been questioned by po-
lice in the Bar-On affair under
warning that they are, at the
very least, borderline suspects in
the case.
What do the last three bring
to this new case?
• Mr. Deri is on trial for ac-
cepting bribes and is due to be
tried for illegally transferring
public funds to Shas synagogues
and yeshivas.
• Building contractor Mr. Ap-
pel is-charged in court with cheat-
ing poor immigrants out of
hundreds of thousands of dollars
in government compensation.
• Mr. Lieberman is being in-
vestigated for falsifying docu-
ments in an attempt to damage
the reputation of the Israel
Broadcasting Authority.
Meanwhile, Dror Hoter Isha'i,
head of the Israel Bar Associa-
tion, is named by Mr. Appel as
the first person to recommend.
Roni Bar-On as attorney gener-
al in an allegedly duplicitous
deal. Mr. Isha'i, however, is go-
ing to trial on evasion of income
taxes.
Further, Jerusalem Mayor
Ehud Olmert, also questioned in
the Bar-On scandal, is on trial for
cooking the Likud's books in the
party's 1988 election campaign.
But that's just in the Bar-On
Affair. Shas Knesset Member
Rafael Pinchasi was slapped with
charges of creative bookkeeping
on his party's finances. Internal
Security Minister Avigdor Ka-
halani is under investigation by
his own police force for involve-
ment in the wiretapping of his
opponent, Roni Milo, in the 1993
Tel Aviv mayoral race.
Let's not even get into the host
of charges of incitement made —
and never prosecuted — in the
wake of the 1995 Rabin assassi-
nation.
Add to that a host of former
government bigwigs in trouble or
just out of it and you have a pic-
ture that makes allegations
against the Clinton White House
look like a kindergarten spat.
Private-sector
values vs. idealism.
Is corruption spread so wide-
ly through the Israeli system, or
is it just an illusion?
Political scientists, investiga-
tive jotunalists and public watch-
dogs agree that Israel government
was never pure, but they insist
it was never this bad.
Prof. Yaron Ezrahi, a Hebrew
University political scientist, says
corruption is on the rise partly
because Israeli politics are far
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