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bseems to embrace every literate person from university gradu- bates to those who finished a few secondary classes, are in the bmajority of cases swayed by the heady talk . . . about ‘settling bscores with Israel.’ Many of them, it would appear, cannot reconcile bthemselves to their status as a minority in a Jewish state and keep hoping bfor some sort of savior.” Was anyone listening? bIn the past ten to fifteen years, a professional, academically btrained stratum has arisen among Israel’s Arabs. The rise of the bnew Arab was a result of the bewildered and bewildering “poli- bcy” of an Israel that hopes to win Arab love through educa- btional, social, and economic advancement.
bWhat is the real result of the millions of dollars poured into
bhigher Arab education and the hundreds of millions spent on
bsecondary (high school) training? Consider: In December 1979
bthe Progressive National Movement (PNM) won the election for
bcontrol of the Arab Student Committee at Hebrew University.
bIn its platform the PNM called for: b•acceptance of the Palestinian Covenant (which calls for the belimination of Israel) b•the creation of a “democratic, secular Palestine” in place of bIsrael
b•acceptance of terrorist activities as part of the Palestinian
bstruggle for self-determination bAnd, indeed, in 1979, students and visitors at the university bwere startled to find mimeographed copies of the Palestinian bNational Charter being distributed. Among other things in the bcharter were Articles 19 and 20, which read: “The partition of bPalestine in 1947 and the establishment of the State of Israel are bentirely illegal. . . . Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews bwith Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history. . . .” bThe strenuous efforts of the leaders of the State of Israel bhave produced a generation of Arab leaders and intellectuals bwho are a source of everlasting irony: they are the products of bthe Jewish state that they wish to dismantle in favor of an Arab bone. bAnd should one have any doubt, the immensely frank in- bterview with Mahmud Muhareb should dispel all of them. bMuhareb, an Israeli Arab citizen of Lydda and at the time b
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