Some years ago I was arrested by the Israeli police and br

charged with “incitement to revolution.” The grounds? I had br

reached the conclusion that it was impossible to find a solution br

for the Arab-Jewish confrontation in the Land of Israel (both the br

State of Israel and the lands liberated in 1967); that the Jewish br

state was inevitably headed toward a situation like that in br

Northern Ireland; that the only possible way to avoid or to br

mitigate it was the emigration of Arabs. Consequently, I had br

sent letters to several thousand Arabs offering them an op- br

portunity (funds and visas) to emigrate voluntarily. The fact br

that many Arabs replied positively and that a major Arab vil- br

lage in the Galilee, Gush Halev, offered to move all its inhabit- br

ants to Canada in return for a village there did not prevent the br

worried Israeli government from arresting me.

Four long years and one important war later, a scandal br

broke in Israel. It was revealed that Yisrael Koenig, a high of- br

ficial in the Ministry of the Interior who is in charge of the br

northern region of Israel, had drafted a secret memorandum in br

which he warned of the increasing danger of Arab growth br

(which would make Arabs in the Galilee a majority by 1978) as br

well as of increasing Arab national militancy. His solution in- br

cluded several measures that he hoped would lead to Arab emi- br

gration.

The pity is that vital years have passed since my original br

proposal, wasted years that saw the Yom Kippur War produce br

a major psychological change in Arab thinking. In the aftermath br

of that war and its political consequences, vast numbers of Ar- br

abs, who in 1972 were depressed and convinced that Israeli sov- br

ereignty could not be destroyed, are today just as convinced that br

time is on their side, that it will not be long before the Zionist br

state collapses. Then they—the Arabs—will hold sway over all br

that will be “Palestine.” The necessary corollary is, of course, br

that hundreds of thousands who were potential voluntary émi- br

grés nine years ago are now determined to stay and await br

the day of Arab victory. But they must go.

It is in order to convince the Jew of this that I have written br

this book.

The problem with so many people who proclaim the virtues br

of coexistence between the Jewish majority of the Jewish state br

and its Arab minority is that they hold the Arab, as well as his br