bPLO sentiment was limited to the other side of ‘the Green Line’
b[the territories], yesterday’s meeting between Premier Rabin
band Nazareth high school students should have brought him up
bshort.”
b•In February 1978 four high school students from the vil-
blage of Tayba were accused of attempting to set fire to two
bbuses and of painting anti-Zionist slogans. When they were
btaken to the village to reenact the deeds, hundreds of students
bstoned the police and prevented them from finishing their mis-
bsion. When the mayor, Abdul Hamid Abu Ataya, appeared in
bcourt with scores of students, he threatened a general strike un-
bless the students were released.
bIt is, thus, little wonder that in a survey of Arab high school
bstudents in June 1974, fully 84 percent stated that they favored
bthe establishment of a Palestinian state. (Of the rest, almost all
brefused to venture an opinion). The high school students are the
btarget of and greatly influenced by the Arab university students,
band because most other careers are limited, the university grad-
buates gravitate toward teaching, where they convey their bitter
banti-Israel feelings. High school students are invited to the cam-
bpus. In one interesting development, after the openly anti-Israel
brally at Hebrew University’s Wise Auditorium, the Arabs asked
bfor the hall again for February 10, 1980, to meet with high
bschool students. In light of the previous meeting, the school de-
bclined to grant the facility, but a “spontaneous” Arab demon-
bstration persuaded them to change their minds.
bIn March 1978 Arab students at Hebrew University invited
bhigh school youngsters from Tayba to spend the weekend at the
b“Hadassah” dormitories of the school. A wild party broke out,
bwith the students smashing sinks and toilets. Bitter Jewish stu-
bdents complained that it was not the first time. It was clear that
bthe actions were more than exuberance but a political ex-
bpression of hate and contempt for the state.
bThe rise of the new generation of educated Israeli Arabs
bwho did not know the bitter taste of defeat and who openly
bmoved toward confrontation with Zionism and the Jewishness of
bthe state was itself given enormous impetus by the Six-Day War.
bAgain, ironically, it was Jewish military victory that the
bJews turned into yet another political defeat. For the first time in
b