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bstate’s roots and character. . . .”

bIt is the Jewish character of Israel which the Arabs will bnever accept, and it is the Jewish character of Israel which is bthreatened by the political rights given to the Arabs by a schizo- bphrenic Declaration of Independence and the ideologically torn band confused Israeli liberal leaders. Writing in Midstream maga- bzine (January 1968), Joel Carmichael reasoned: “And if the bArab community within Israel achieves parity and is democrat- bically represented in the organs of government, it is hard to bsee how an Israeli government could avoid the curbing of btwo rights that it is bound to regard as fundamental, and that bhave always been so regarded by the historic Zionist movement b—the right to control both immigration and land development. bIf an Israeli Arab community roughly the size of the Israeli Jew- bish community were to be fairly represented in government, bthere is, of course, no reason to think it would tolerate the pro- bmotion of these two cardinal goals of the Zionist movement.” bMr. Carmichael was being charitable. The Arabs would not tol- berate the Zionist movement and the Jewish state.

bA brief glimpse of what the Arabs have in mind can be bgarnered from a disingenuous proposal by an Israeli Arab lead- ber. On June 28, 1976, Rashad Salah Slim, head of the Israeli bvillage of Eiblin, drafted a memorandum in which he suggested bthat the name of the state be changed to “Israel-Palestine” and bcover all the territory on both sides of the Jordan, including the bcountry of Jordan. Free immigration would be given to all Jews band Arabs (including, of course, the Arabs who fled their homes bin 1948). Voting would be based on one person, one vote. Of bcourse, this is little more than a more cynical version of the bPLO’s call for a “democratic, secular Palestine,” which trans- blates into an Arab state. Slim’s unique contribution is the name. bSuch a state would by its population automatically become the btwenty-second Arab state, but the name “Israel” would remain bin a hyphenated version (for at least the first six months).

bOf course, the Arabs want “democracy.” Their numbers bmean the end of the one Jewish state in the world. The mad bJewish insistence that Israel is committed to this “democracy” bis but the latest in Jewish tendencies toward suicide.

bThe Jew must decide whether he is prepared to sacrifice the bJewish state on the altar of “democracy” that is a cynical weap- b 

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