roved Relations Between Arabs
6-Day War Improved
and Jews in Israel, Writes Brandeis Expert

ATLANTA—The Jews of Israel,
in an effort to break down the
barriers of "separation and mis-
trust" between them and their
Arab fellow citizens, have tacitly
abandoned the view that Israel
must remain almost exclusively
Jewish, according to a leading ex-
pert on Arab-Jewish relations.
This is among the major con-
clusions of "From Conflict to Un-
derstanding — Relations Between
Jews and Arabs in Israel Since
1948," published by the Institute
of Human Relations Press of the
American Jewish Committee as one
of a series of publications de-
voted to the memory of A. M.
Sonnabend, 12th president of the
AJC.
The 104-page booklet was re-
leased at the closing session of the
Committee's national executive
board meeting Sunday at Regency
Hyatt House by Dr. Simon Segal,
director of the AJC foreign affairs
department.

The author, Dr. Ernest Stock,
director of the Jacob Hiatt Insti-
tute of Brandeis University in
Jerusalem and formerly. a Ford
Foundation research fellow in Is-
rael, contends that, paradoxically,
the Six-Day War improved rather
than damaged relations between
Israel's Jews and Arabs.
Although the stringent secur-
ity measures necessitated by the
war have impeded this process,
according to Dr. Stock, "The
mutual confidence that grew out
of the 1967 experience has un-
doubtedly advanced relations be-
tween Israel's two communities.
"The massive confrontation with
the population of the occupied
areas has stirred great popular
interest in Arab language and cul-
ture on the part of the Jews. And
although the question of what the
future character of the state
should be has not yet been square-
ly faced, the long-cherished as-
sumption that a near-homogeneous

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Jewish population was a primary
interest of the state has been
quietly dropped."
He adds:
"In the Six-Day War which pro-
vided a crucial test for Israeli
Arabs, they identified with the
state and its predicament to a re-
markable degree.
The Arab community expressed
its solidarity in a variety of ways:
statements by notables, blood dona-
tions, volunteer work in kibutzim
and willingness of young men to
enlist for military service. This
demonstration of loyalty was wide-
ly reported in the press, and there
were no reported instances of re-
crimination against Israel Arabs
during the crisis."
With the unification of Jer-
usalem after the War, Dr. Stock
says, Israelis for the first time
are face-to-face with an Arab so-
ciety "whose leadership and struc-
ture are intact, self-confident and
politically conscious."
Once Jerusalem Jews and
Arabs did meet, there was rela-
tively little friction, he notes. Dr.
Stock praises the Jerusalem city
government and Mayor Teddy
Kollek for showing "tact and
skill" in handling the meeting
of Arab with Jews. "But on the
person-to-person level," he says,
"the potential for mutual under-
standing and friendship still
needs to be translated into ac-
tion, for ... contact between the
two populations has remained
rare."
Dr. Stock does not ignore the
complications that face Israelis and
Arabs alike. "The belief that the
problem of relations with the Arabs
was primarily one of security and
loyalty," he writes, "kept the great
majority of Jews from thinking
about either the social disabilities
faced by the Arab community or
the psychological problems of the
individual Arab."
But, he adds, much has been
accomplished by "direct contact, a
courteous approach and a generous
measure of education and infor-
mation."

THE DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS
Friday , November 1, 1968-5

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formed
name in the Knesset, proposes a will an Avnery end Zionism in
the interest of a peace that is
"Pax Semitica" in his book "Israel
sought by only one faction in
Without Zionists—A Plea for Peace
the dispute?
in the Middle East," published by
Macmillan.
Avnery's is a long book. It re-
Like so many other books deal- hashes the old stories, provides
historical
facts that are well
ing with the situation in Israel, Av-
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existence, writes autobiographi- convincing in an argument that
cally, concedes that Zionism res- need not have taken up so many
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