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Upcoming polls to determine future of Jewish state
TEL AVIV, Feb 18: The upcoming election will give Israelis their clearest choice in decades about the future of the Jewish state, reports AP.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres promises a mighty push for a comprehensive peace to end a century of Arab-Israeli conflict. Although he is vague on the details, many believe this to mean Palestinian independence and a return of the Golan Heights to Syria.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the right-wing challenger, tapes the skepticism that many Israelis have about whether the Arabs are ready to end hostilities and accept Israel's-per-manent presence in the Holy
He considers Yasser Arafat a terrorist, not a peacemaker, and says he will never meet with him face-to-face. He vows to prevent further
expansion of the Palestinian autonomous zones in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. He rejects withdrawal from the Golan.
"I don't much believe in a "New Middle East," Netanyahu said, mocking the title of Peres' upbeat 1993 book predicting a future in which soldiers give way to software engineers.
"We don't see a computer for every Arab peasant in the region, the Likud Party leader said this week as he and Peres announced that the elections would be- held early, probably in late May.
Hanan As hr awl, a former Arafat spokeswoman elected last month to the new Palestinian self-rule council, warned that Natanyahu's attitude could wipe out the achievements of the peace process.
"It will sign the death
certificate for peace.” she told The Associated Press.
For now. Peres leads his conservative rival by up to 20 per cent In the polls — a result of a wave of sympathy following the November 4 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a right-wing religious extremist.
But the election is far from sewn up.
The urbane Perea. 72. has a poor track record, having loat three electiona and tied one. Four yeara ago the Labour Party dumped him for Rabin, a gruff, popular former army chief, and won Ita first election in almost two decades. When Rabin was assassinated. the party turned to Perea aa the natural choice.
Perea' Achillea' heel is terrorism by Islamic mili-
tants who have vowed to wreck the peace process. A resumption of their deadly suicide bombings, on hold since the summer, could erase his advantage.
Launching his campaign this week. Peres urged Israelis to give him a mandate to "end the state of war in the entire region."
Rabin and Peres signed a 1993 deal with the PLO establishing autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. That led to a pCace treaty with Jordan, establishment of ties with several moderate Arab states and a fizzling of the Arab economic boycott of Israel,
Many difficult issues remain: the PLO's demand to upgrade autonomy to state hood; the future of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as their capital: the rights of
Arab refugees; and the status of Jewish settlements In the West Bank and Gaza.
Netanyahu. 46. a former UN ambassador and deputy foreign minister, says he recognises Palestinian selfrule but would go no further. That would Wave the 2.2 million West Bank and Gaza Arabs in lirnbo and still under Israel s effective domination.
Israel's Haaretz newspaper predicted a Netanyahu victory would mean an almost Inevitable new Palestinian uprising, this time under worse conditions" — not by stone-throwing youths, as during the 1987-93 Intefadeh. but by thousands of armed PLO troops.
Such a development also would throw Israel's relations with Arab countries Into turmoil.
Netanyahu adviser Dore Gold, a researcher at Tel Aviv
University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, said the solution to the Israeli-Arab problem was more complex that Labour s formula of offer Ing land In exchange for peace
The Palestinians. Gold said, would not turn hostile for fear of losing the auton omy they have gained Talks with Damascus would con tinue because Syrian Presl dent Hafez Assad is more in terested in being seen by the United States as pursuing peace than in actually reach Inga deal
And moderate Arab Gulf countries actually prefer "a strong Israel to act as a cou nterbaiance to Iran and mill tant Arab states, Gold said
But he conceded To keep the process going will take a lot of diplomatic skill"