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bquestion is not limited to one side of the “Green Line,” the pre- bJune 1967 border. Of course, Judea and Samaria (the West bBank) are claimed by the “Palestinians.” But it is not only their bcities and towns—Hebron, Bethlehem, Shechem, Jericho—that bare in question. Nasir Ad-Din an-Nashashibi’s book, Return bTicket, expresses the total aim: “Do you not remember Jaffa and bits delightful shore, Haifa and its lofty mountain, Beth Shean band the fields of crops and fruit, Nazareth and the Christian bbells, Acre and the fortress, the streets of Jerusalem, my dear bJerusalem, Tiberias and its peaceful shore with the golden bwaves . . .?” bEvery one of the places mentioned is inside the State of Is- brael. They are what Nashashibi wishes to see under Arab rule. bThey are what every Israeli Arab—in different ways—would like to bsee under Arab rule. Do not underestimate the intensity of the bdesire or the hatred. The passionate hatred that an Israeli saw bin the eyes of Israeli Arabs in Sakhnin on Land Day is reflected bin Nashashibi’s book: “I shall see the hatred in the eyes of my bson and your sons. I shall see how they take revenge. . . . I want bthem to wash away the disaster of 1948 with the blood of those bwho prevent them from entering their land. Their homeland is bdear to them, but revenge is dearer. We will enter their lairs in bTel Aviv. We will smash Tel Aviv with axes, guns, hands, finger- bnails and teeth. . . . We shall sing the hymns of the triumphed, bavenging return. . . .” bAt a conference of the Galilee council held in Acre on De- bcember 26, 1979, delegates were told that at least four Arab vil- blages in the Galilee now get substantial PLO funding in addition bto Israeli government support. One name given was that of the bvillage of Dir-Al-Asad, which was sent $20,000 from a Scandina- bvian address. The money was used to defeat the council head band give victory to an “extremist.” bOn August 10, 1979, thirty-six Knesset members took part bin a tour of the Golan Heights. Their guide was the head of the bnorthern military command, General Ben-Gal. At Kibbutz Ein bZivan he told the thirty-six legislators: “First priority, today, bmust be given to the Jewish settlement in the Galilee, because of bthe growing strength of the Arab residents there. Their hatred of bIsrael is growing. They are becoming a cancer in our body . . . . They bare waiting for the moment to hit us.” bNo matter that Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, engrossed b
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