YEAH FROM THE YUPPIES

"You get the feeling that he's ready to
give back all of the Golan to the
Syrians. Bibi never would have done
that," Hasdan said. "A_nd he let a con-
victed Palestinian terrorist come into
Israel to go to his father's funeral. I don't
think he's going to stand up to the
Palestinians on Jerusalem. You give the
Arabs an inch, and they'll take a mile."
Slav Hasdan, a 28-year-old Russian
Elsewhere in the shopping center,
immigrant, speaks about Barak from
Rina Surkis presides over a gourmet
his optical store in Rosh Hasayin.
candy shop. Handmade Max Brenner
chocolates sit on the counter, delicate porcelain figurines on the shelves.
The 40-year-old is a member of the broad Israeli middle-class, the base of
Barak's electoral support.
While nominally left wing, she seems primarily impressed by Barak's
personality
"I think he's a very honest man, and I think he can change things. I like
his wife, Nava, too," Surkis said. She is drawn to Barak's combination of
soldier, dove and secularist — the same combination that was present in
the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
"Barak does things slowly and surely, so I think he'll get to where he
wants to go. He doesn't let the religious tell him what to do, either," Surkis
noted. "Another thing — people are optimistic that the econorny is going
to improve. You can feel it."

MIXED ARAB REVIEWS

bombs, the movement has come under increased surveillance. With
Jewish suspicion of Israeli Arabs escalating, many Israeli Arabs feel
persecuted.
"I blame Barak for allowing this to happen," said Issa Yosef, 35.
"Let them prosecute the people who are to blame [for the bombings],
but they shouldn't accuse all Arabs. We've proved our loyalty"
The old man interjected, "I agree absolutely"
Yosef also is disappointed that Barak, despite expectations, continued
the historic ban against bringing Israeli Arab parties into the ruling
coalition, and did not name an Israeli Arab cabinet minister.
"When Barak was elected, people here thought he was going to be
some sort of savior, but now they feel that nothing has changed."
Then is Barak no different. than Netanyahu? 'No, I wouldn't say
that," replied Yosef "The difference between Netanyahu and Barak is
like the difference between the earth and the sky."

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"But I'm very afraid that he's going to give back the smaller, more dis-
tant setdements," said Orit Zimra, 23, a speech therapist. "I'm worried that
he's going to take a step that he'll later regret."
Her 23-year-old husband, who studies computer engineering at Tel Aviv
University, added, "I'm not at all surprised by the way Barak has been doing
things. He wants the world to like him, especially [President Bill] Clinton, and
Pina Zimra, 23, and his wife, he does whatever they want him to do."
They, like other settlers and commit-
Orit Zimra, 23, live in Elkana, a
settlement across the Green Line. ted right-wingers, are not taking to the
streets as they did after the Oslo Accord
of 1993. But that, they add, can change.
"If any settlement has to be dismantled,
that would be crossing a red line, and the
protest movement would start up immedi-
ately," said Orit Zimra. "Another thing
that would do it is if terror comes back.
Until then, God forbid, we're waiting."

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