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bplans, and the growth of the Arab university student population. bThe amount of intermarriage in Israel is on the rise, but even bmore startling is the number of Arabs who live with Jewish bwomen. bOn the one hand are the predominantly Sephardic women bfrom moshavim or poor urban neighborhoods who are easy prey bfor Arabs who promise them a “better life.” The twenty-four- byear-old Holon Jewess who was involved in scores of burglaries bwith her Arab boyfriend from the village of Baka Al-Gharbiya is bjust one example. bOn the other hand are the predominantly Ashkenazic wom- ben from middle- and upper-class families who—for all the un- bhealthy reasons seen among such women in the United States bduring the civil rights and radical eras—find an outlet for re- bbellion and personal confusion in relationships with Arabs. bThese contacts are made mostly at the universities. Both the bJewish women and the foreign Jewish students are easy targets bfor the Jew-hating Arab student. In a series of articles on the bproblem, the Jerusalem Post wrote (February 23, 1979): “A lec- bturer well versed in the atmosphere of Arab student life on the bcampus added a blunt comment: ‘I wouldn’t say it for all the bmixed couples on campus, but in some of the cases, it is very bmuch a matter of the best way of — the Jewish State is to — ba Jewish girl and broadcast the fact as widely as possible.’” bThe Arabs clearly understand the importance of humil- biation of Jews and the place that sexual relations with Jewish bwomen have in that humiliation. For the foreign Jewish woman bstudent, the contact is often made on the basis of deliberate de- bception. The handsome Israeli she met as “Moshe” later turns bout to be “Musa,” but by the time she finds out she is deeply binvolved. None of this is helped by policies such as at Ben- bGurion University in Beersheba, where dormitories are totally bmixed, male-female and Arab-Jewish. bThe government is playing no small role in breaking down bthe social barriers between Jews and Arabs. It will avail Israel bnothing politically, but will lead to a disintegration of Jewish bseparatism and Zionism, and to growing sexual relations and bintermarriage. Thus, the Education Ministry in a press release b(July 27, 1979) concerning government-sponsored summer bcamps stated: “There also are camps which contain both Arab b
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