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bbeing and waiting for demography to put an end to Israel. Life
bmust be made difficult for them as part of a definite campaign to
binduce them to leave the country.
bThere must be an end, first of all, to the wholesale evasion
bof taxes and land laws. There should be set up an efficient gov-
bernmental office, working with the Border Patrol, to track down
bevery piece of state land that has been the target of squatters. All
billegal buildings must be demolished and stiff fines and prison
bterms levied, but with the possibility of their being waived in
breturn for a promise to emigrate. All state lands that were leased
bto Arabs under the government’s change of policy in the late
bseventies should have their leases terminated. The “Judaizing”
bof the Galilee and Triangle should be openly admitted—with all
bits good and sufficient reasons—and expropriation of land with
bcompensation vigorously executed. The large number of Bed-
bouins and Arabs from Judea-Samaria-Gaza who have illegally
bentered Israel must be heavily fined and then deported.
bIn addition, a special tax department working with the po-
blice must see that every Arab pays his fair share of taxes—in-
bcome, value-added, and others. Stiff fines and levies on property
bshould be the punishments, and justice should be swift and sure.
bThe Arab youth must prepare to serve for three years in a
bwork corps at the age of eighteen, and for a period of a month
beach year after that, just as his Jewish counterpart serves in the
barmed forces and national service. The freedom of the Arab from
bsuch service enables him to work and save money during the
blong periods that the Israeli Jew must sacrifice while in national
bservice. This consideration of no national service, little or no
btaxes, and land seizure is intolerable, and, of course, it goes far
bto defeat any incentive for the Arab to leave. This must change,
bas must the present system of university education for the Arab,
bregardless of his views. The process whereby Jews allow their
buniversities to be production lines and training grounds for the
bintellectual leaders of the PLO cannot continue. Any Arab who
bwishes to study at a university will have to pledge his acceptance
band support of the Land of Israel as the exclusive and perma-
bnent home—of the Jewish people. If he is not willing, he has no
bplace in a Jewish university. The governmental funds that now
bgo to scholarships for Arab students should be shifted to the
bJewish Agency, which will give the money to deserving, needy
bJews.