PLO sentiment was limited to the other side of ‘the Green Line’ br

[the territories], yesterday’s meeting between Premier Rabin br

and Nazareth high school students should have brought him up br

short.”

•aaaIn February 1978 four high school students from the vil- br

lage of Tayba were accused of attempting to set fire to two br

buses and of painting anti-Zionist slogans. When they were br

taken to the village to reenact the deeds, hundreds of students br

stoned the police and prevented them from finishing their mis- br

sion. When the mayor, Abdul Hamid Abu Ataya, appeared in br

court with scores of students, he threatened a general strike un- br

less the students were released.

It is, thus, little wonder that in a survey of Arab high school br

students in June 1974, fully 84 percent stated that they favored br

the establishment of a Palestinian state. (Of the rest, almost all br

refused to venture an opinion). The high school students are the br

target of and greatly influenced by the Arab university students, br

and because most other careers are limited, the university grad- br

uates gravitate toward teaching, where they convey their bitter br

anti-Israel feelings. High school students are invited to the cam- br

pus. In one interesting development, after the openly anti-Israel br

rally at Hebrew University’s Wise Auditorium, the Arabs asked br

for the hall again for February 10, 1980, to meet with high br

school students. In light of the previous meeting, the school de- br

clined to grant the facility, but a “spontaneous” Arab demon- br

stration persuaded them to change their minds.

In March 1978 Arab students at Hebrew University invited br

high school youngsters from Tayba to spend the weekend at the br

“Hadassah” dormitories of the school. A wild party broke out, br

with the students smashing sinks and toilets. Bitter Jewish stu- br

dents complained that it was not the first time. It was clear that br

the actions were more than exuberance but a political ex- br

pression of hate and contempt for the state.

The rise of the new generation of educated Israeli Arabs br

who did not know the bitter taste of defeat and who openly br

moved toward confrontation with Zionism and the Jewishness of br

the state was itself given enormous impetus by the Six-Day War.

Again, ironically, it was Jewish military victory that the br

Jews turned into yet another political defeat. For the first time in br