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bthat the very basis for their beliefs of a lifetime is a sham.

b•Shimon Peres, leader of the Labor Party, is also, of course, ba “goodwill, head-and-stomach” man, but he differs with the bsupporters of total integration. “We have failed, for twenty-eight byears”—this in an interview with Maariv, March 26, 1976—“in bregard to our Arab minority.” And his prescription for Arab bcontentment and acceptance of Israel? Separate Arab develop- bment. Encourage and aid them to set up their own political bparties. “Because we did not encourage them in this, they were bforced to find expression in hostile political parties.”

bAh, that is the source of the problem. Not Zionism, not the bfact that the Arab feels nothing but hatred for the state that took baway “his” land and made his people a minority in a foreign bJewish state. All we need do is allow him to establish his own bframework. Question: Who prevented him from doing so all these byears? Question: Will this separate party be less hostile to Israel bthan the present “hostile” parties to which he has gravitated? bQuestion: How does separate existence breed love for the Jew? bWill not a separate Arab party be based logically on a demand bfor separate existence and separation from Israel? Answer: bPeres has not the slightest idea. His is one other side of the Is- braeli Coin of Confusion.

b•The Peres idea was the subject of two articles in the Jerusa- blem Post, which merely proved the inflationary character of the bCoin. Said Moshe Ater, Labor Party member, (July 12, 1976): b“A precondition to peaceful cooperation between Jews and Ar- babs is . . . deliberate segregation, confining joint activity to essen- btials of mutual benefit.”

bBut it was the second article by one Melvin Moguloff that bsurely is a candidate for the most fascinating political psychol- bogy article in many a day. Moguloff, described as a “social bplanner at one of the country’s major public agencies,” in an bApril 9, 1978, article, called for separate but very equal facilities. bEconomic and social conditions are the key for Moguloff, as bbefits a social welfare planner. Therefore, if we make sure that bthe Arab stomach is full and his head filled exactly like those of bthe Jews, it will be good. But, if not, “a large and articulate bArab community, in a democratic state, could not long accept bsecond-class economic status.”

bWhat makes the Moguloff article fascinating, in a hideous b