question is not limited to one side of the “Green Line,” the pre- br

June 1967 border. Of course, Judea and Samaria (the West br

Bank) are claimed by the “Palestinians.” But it is not only their br

cities and towns—Hebron, Bethlehem, Shechem, Jericho—that br

are in question. Nasir Ad-Din an-Nashashibi’s book, Return br

Ticket, expresses the total aim: “Do you not remember Jaffa and br

its delightful shore, Haifa and its lofty mountain, Beth Shean br

and the fields of crops and fruit, Nazareth and the Christian br

bells, Acre and the fortress, the streets of Jerusalem, my dear br

Jerusalem, Tiberias and its peaceful shore with the golden br

waves . . .?”

Every one of the places mentioned is inside the State of Is- br

rael. They are what Nashashibi wishes to see under Arab rule. br

They are what every Israeli Arab—in different ways—would like to br

see under Arab rule. Do not underestimate the intensity of the br

desire or the hatred. The passionate hatred that an Israeli saw br

in the eyes of Israeli Arabs in Sakhnin on Land Day is reflected br

in Nashashibi’s book: “I shall see the hatred in the eyes of my br

son and your sons. I shall see how they take revenge. . . . I want br

them to wash away the disaster of 1948 with the blood of those br

who prevent them from entering their land. Their homeland is br

dear to them, but revenge is dearer. We will enter their lairs in br

Tel Aviv. We will smash Tel Aviv with axes, guns, hands, finger- br

nails and teeth. . . . We shall sing the hymns of the triumphed, br

avenging return. . . .”

At a conference of the Galilee council held in Acre on De- br

cember 26, 1979, delegates were told that at least four Arab vil- br

lages in the Galilee now get substantial PLO funding in addition br

to Israeli government support. One name given was that of the br

village of Dir-Al-Asad, which was sent $20,000 from a Scandina- br

vian address. The money was used to defeat the council head br

and give victory to an “extremist.”

On August 10, 1979, thirty-six Knesset members took part br

in a tour of the Golan Heights. Their guide was the head of the br

northern military command, General Ben-Gal. At Kibbutz Ein br

Zivan he told the thirty-six legislators: “First priority, today, br

must be given to the Jewish settlement in the Galilee, because of br

the growing strength of the Arab residents there. Their hatred of br

Israel is growing. They are becoming a cancer in our body . . . . They br

are waiting for the moment to hit us.”

No matter that Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, engrossed br