Israeli Arabs Do Their Part as Loyal Citizens

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conflict might disintegrate
the fragile structure of peace
that had been built in the
past few years between the
Israelis and the Arabs of
the administered areas were
relieved.
But the more astounding
story was the behavior of the
non-Jewish population of Is-
rael itself.
At firs t, Is aeli Arabs
were terrified that the anger
of Israel's Jews over the
Syrian-Egyptian surprise at-
tack on Yom Kippur might
be turned against them. For
that reason many who had
jobs on Israeli farms and in
aeli factories failed to
-spear for work the first few
days of the war. Their own
leaders gradually persuaded
most of them that their fears
were groundless.
On the positive side, thou-
sands of Arabs demonstrated
that they felt the country of
which they were a part had
been attacked and that their

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own self-interest was affect-
ed. At first, the Israel' gov-
ernment deliberately refrain-
ed from trying to involve the
Arab population in the war,
but after a few days it was
obvious that they were of-
fended at being left out, so
in the seven largest Arab
communities offices were
opened for the registration
of those who wished to volun-
teer for civil defense or ag-
riculture work, and for those
who wished to make contri-
butions of money.
To save the Arabs from
embarrassment, the word
"war" was eliminated from
the voluntary war loan cer-
tificates, so they could con-
tribute to the country's emer-
gency fund without feeling
they were helping to finance
a war against their kin.
On the second day of the
war, a mass meeting was
called in Nazareth, an over-
whelmingly Arab town. Six
hundred adults responded,
most of them in kaftans and
kaffiyehs . After sever al
speakers had called Naz-
areth an example of how
Jews and Arabs can live to-
gether, the meeting voted an
expression of its support to
the state.
Within a few days, soldiers
passing through Nazareth on
on the main highway were
greeted by a sign in Hebrew
welcoming them to a free
buffet prepared by Jewish
and Arab women of Naz-
areth, working together. The
food, drink and cigarettes
were mostly contributed by
Arab merchants. The hostes-
ses were mostly Arab wom-
en.
In every Arab community
there was a story of Arabs
who wanted to identify with
the state in its emergency;
stories of Arabs who were
giving generously both time
and money.
Down in the Negev desert,
Bedduin tribesmen collected
amonf themselves IL 250,000
for the Emergency War
Loan. On the frontier of Leb
anon, the Arab town of Gush
Halav, population 1,800, sub-
scribed IL 13,000. In Rama,
a Druze father of six chil-
dren, wounded in the 1967
war, pledged IL 2,000 to be
deducted from his pension in
10 installments.
* *
By MOSHE RON
The Arabs of the village
of Baram, near the Lebanese
border, who 25 years ago
were evacuated for security
reasons by the Israeli forces
and were resettled in Gush
Halav, are until today wag-
ing a legal fight in order to
return to their village.
The leader of the Greek-
Catholic Church in Israel,
Archbishop Josef Raya, who
leads their struggle, appeal-
ed to the villagers after the
outbreak of hostilities and
asked them to help the Is-
raeli war effort.
Many of them volunteered
as drivers to transport vital
products, or to work in fac-
tories or to repair the dam-
age in Israeli settlements hit
by Syrians and Palestinian
terrorists.
The leader of the Druze
community, Sheikh Amin Ta-
rif and the Moslem Kadi of
Jaffa, Tufik Aslaya, each
have given a month's salary
to the Israeli Voluntary Loan.
Arab Knesset members Ab-
del Aziz Zaoubi, Jaber Mou-
adi and Isaf Eldin Zouabi
did the same.
Thirty thousand Bedouins

who are living in Israel voic-
ed their readiness to serve in
the Israeli army and work
for the war effort.
When war broke out, Be-
douin Sheikh Soleiman de-
clared that the Bedouins
could not sit by quietly while
Israel is fighting and shed-
ding its blood. He called on
the Bedouins to volunteer for
service in the Israeli army.
Many Bedouins put their
trucks and private vehicles
at the service of the army.
The reserve soldiers of the
Druze community formed a
special unit to guard the
border between the Lebanon
and Israel against Palestin-
ian terrorists attacks. They
organized patrols along the
boarder and prevented ter-
rorist infiltration.
Israeli Arabs did not take
part in any anti-Israel prop-
aganda during the war, but
the Arabs in the occupied
territories were divided. In
Gaza, some of them welcom-
ed the Egyptian attack and

even waited for Egyptian
soldiers to arrive. The radio
stations of the Arab coun-
tries appealed to the inhabi-
tants of Gaza to proclaim a
general strike, but they were
warned by the Israeli au-
thorities to continue their
regular work.

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Nov. 18, Paul Zuckerman,
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and local campaign leaders.

Presently, the missions are
scheduled weekly through
Dec. 9.

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