Volume 28, Number 2 · February 19, 1981
Do Israel's Arabs Have a Future?
By Bernard Avishai
The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism
by Elia T. Zureik
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 249 pp., $20.00
Arab Education in Israel
by Sami Khalil Mar'i
Syracuse University Press, 209 pp., $15.00
Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel's Control of a National Minority
by Ian Lustick
University of Texas Press, 399 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Beyond the Gunsights: One Arab Family in the Promised Land
by Yoella Har-Shefi
Houghton Mifflin, 226 pp., $9.95
For Israelis, one of the most disturbing facts of life is that so many of the five hundred thousand Arabs who are Israeli citizens are increasingly militant supporters of the PLO. In the elections of 1977 over half of them voted for Rakah, Israel's pro-Moscow Communist Party, which claims to be anti-Zionist and openly favors a PLO state in occupied territory. When the party planned an Israeli-Arab political congress in Nazareth for December 6 the Begin government banned it from taking place. Arab student organizations at the Hebrew University and other universities have refused to stand guard duty on their own campuses, though these have been the targets of terrorist attacks. Students' groups have issued statements endorsing the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. So has Tufik Zayat, the communist mayor of Nazareth, who told me not long ago that such sentiments are only the surface signs of deep disaffection.
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