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Division In Israel

NATO bombing of Serbia
gets approval and condemnation.

NECHEMIA MEYERS

Special to The Jewish News

Jerusalem

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sraelis are split over Kosovo,
with the Left, in general, sym-
pathizing with NATO attempts
to curb the Serbs, and the
Right, again in general, sympathizing
with the Serbs.
The Israeli government, for its
part, has expressed its opposition to
the killings "by the Serbs or others"
and sent humanitarian aid to the
refugees who fled to Macedonia. But
Israel has refused to explicitly con-
demn the Yugoslavian government or
to support the NATO air attacks.
Even Holocaust survivors are split,
though not necessarily along political
lines.
On the one hand, the "ethnic
cleansing" being carried out by the
Serbs reminds some of them of the
atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.
Therefore, they favor the bombing of
Serb military targets. On the other
hand, there are those who-survived the
war thanks to the Serbians who fought
the Nazis so valiantly: As one survivor
asked rhetorically: "How can I look
into the eyes of those friends who
stood by me in World War II and
whose cities are now being bombed?"
Hebrew University Prof. Shlomo
Avineri understands that Jews saved
by the Serbs feel solidarity with them.
But, he says, "the heroism of the Serbs
in the past cannot justify the atrocities
they are committing in 1999."
This being an election year, Meretz
leader Yossie Sarid took the occasion to
criticize the present government for
failing to speak out more clearly against
the Serbs and to limit itself to sending a
plane with blankets, tents and medi-
cines for the refugees. He called this "a
cynical gesture and said that the
Jewish state should not idly stand by
while genocide takes place.
In a more guarded statement,
Attorney-General Elyakim Rubinstein
declared that if the reports of genocide
turn out to be true, "it is Israel's moral
and legal duty to help international
efforts to investigate and prosecute
those responsible."
Right-wing supporters of the Serbs
are particularly disturbed by the possi-

bility that if Belgrade is being bombed
today, Tel Aviv could be bombed
tomorrow. David Beden, for example,
wrote: "The members of the
European Union together with the
United States have appointed them-
selves the champions of the secession-
ist Kosavars, and they enforce their
views with incendiary bombs.
And since the European Union has
also proclaimed itself the champion of
a Palestinian state, why should it not
also enforce its view with equal force?"
In a variation on the same theme,
Hebrew University Prof. Yehoshua
Porat and Haifa University Prof.

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People walk past burning civilian
buildings
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the largest military
barracks in downtown Pristina, after
it was hit by NATO airs strikes early
on March 25. In the background is the
Grand Hotel, a Pristina landmark.

Arnon Sofer say "every bomb that
falls on Yugoslavia causes the earth to
shake in Israel as well."
Opponents of Netanyahu have
drawn their own, rather different con-
clusions about the implications of
events in the Balkans. They argue that
the policies of the present government
have led to this country's growing iso-
lation and to increasing support for
the Palestinians. This doesn't mean,
they add, that Tel Aviv is about to be
bombed in support of Palestinian
demands, but it nevertheless has grave
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