rapid. In the cities there is no closed society, no ever-present br

father, no stifling hamulla. In the cities there are opportunities to br

meet Jewish girls, leftists, and intellectuals. In the cities one can br

see the Jewish world that runs Israel, the land to which the Arab br

is supposed to be loyal.

Israeli Arabs. Fathers and sons—and increasingly daughters. br

For the Israelis have liberated the Arab woman, too, in order br

that she may also vote for anti-Zionists and teach anti-Israel br

hatred. Thus, when the prime minister’s office boasts that “the br

expansion of the educational system has helped to raise the stan- br

dard of education of the younger generation of women” and br

“the fact that Arab women are coming into closer contact with br

the Jewish population is opening up new horizons,” one gropes br

for an explanation for the smug satisfaction. The most that can br

be said for Israel’s liberal policy is that it has created a new br

generation of Jew haters with due care to ensure that the source br

of the hate is equal, without discrimination because of sex.

To quote once again the young university graduate from br

the western Galilee village of Kabul who heads the PLO group br

Abna-el-balad: “We have very good young people in our village. br

The father no longer rules here. Now, each voter has his own br

ideas. We are trying to get rid of the hamulla lists. Ninety percent br

of the young people voted for us in the local elections. . . . My br

father wants to be left alone in peace and quiet.”

The generation of the fathers, the Uncle Ahmeds, is dying, br

destroyed by the Israeli government’s “head-and-stomach” pol- br

icy. The father is dead; long live the son, and daughter, whom br

Israel created. They will do their best to destroy the Jewish br

state, and, of course, the Jewish state will continue to produce br

them. The very first generation of Israeli Arab university gradu- br

ates immediately produced the El Ard anti-Israel movement in the br

early 1960s.

Indeed, even then there were those who saw and under- br

stood—and those who did, terrified by what they saw, put it out br

of mind. In Midstream magazine (December 1962) Nissim Rej- br

wan, an Israeli writer, said: “One of the more alarming aspects br

of the Israeli problem is that the new generation of Israeli Arabs br

generally shows even less willingness, not to speak of eagerness, br

to accept the fact of Israel’s existence than do their fathers and br

grandfathers. The so-called Arab ‘intelligentsia’ in Israel, which br