THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Dilemma of Israeli Minorities: Loyalty to Israel or Arab Cause? By GIDEON WEIGERT World Zionist Press Service In the 31 years of Israel's statehood, its minorities more than doubled in number — from 110,000 to close to half a million people. The numbers of their elected representa- tives rose from two before the first elections to the Knesset to eight in the _Math Knesset. And most glikportant, their entire structure and outlook has undergone a revolutionary change as they adopted new, ever-changing pat- terns. Today, in an era of peace with Egypt, yet mounting Best Wishes For A HAPPY NEW YEAR From The - Staff Of MITCH'S Restaurant & Bar 4000 Cass Elizabeth Rd. 682-1616 PUSHCART CAFE 1488 WINDER 393-1985 WISHES IT'S FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR y /4e C omin-9 gear P rin9 Peace an d Jhalth a All NEW H EL LS 583 MONROE tensions with Jordan and the Palestinian groupings in other parts of the Arab world, the problems of Is- rael's -Arab citizens may be described as a' mosaic of hopes and disappointment, of light and shadow. During three major wars fought by the Jewish state (in 1956, 1967 and 1973), Is- rael's Arabs time and again proved their loyalty to the state by donating blood and money, volunteering for civil defense and other- emergency services. In many economic and development fields, Arabs in the Jewish state have witnessed the most far-reaching changes possible. Living standards have risen be- yond all comparison for townsfolk and villagers alike. Every Arab and Druze village is connected to a piped water system, all have all-weather roads, the majority have electricity, their health standards and life expectation are the highest in the entire Arab world, doctor-patient ratio is 1 to 500, compared to 1,475 in Lebanon and 3,865 in Syria. Arab women have under- gone a quiet revolution, reaching even the conserva- tive Druze society where young village girls are em- ployed in local, modern, industrial enterprises and act as chairmen of workers' committees. The long process of inte- gration ( not assimilation) has been particularly visi- ble among the country's Druze, living in 18 villages in Galilee and on Mt. Car- mel. In 1977 the first Druze ex-soldier was elected to Is- rael's Knesset (Druze and Circassians serve in Israel's Army on a compulsory basis, while Moslems and Christians may volunteer for the armed forces). Today there are three Druz MKs, all Israeli ex-servicemen. Yet along with the light comes the shadow ... a mosaic of trial and error. Pressure from the sur- rounding Arab world on Israeli Arabs to show their loyalty to the "na- tional Palestinian cause" has caused a growing radicalization but Israeli Arabs also point to inter- nal reasons for continued frustration. They note the absence of an Arab cabinet member, or even a deputy minister. Arab and Druze intellectu- als have not yet been able to occupy senior executive posts in the Establishment: they demand than an Arab, not a Jew, should head Is- rael's Arabic services in the media, in the Arab depart- ments of the Histadrut, in the Labor and other parties. The failure to promote in- dustry in the Arab sector on an adequate scale is another cause for complaint and one of the reasons why so many Arab villagers have to travel long distances to work: Continued expropriation of land in Galilee had re- sulted in 1975 in the first armed clashes bel ween se- curity forces and he Arab population, with t le loss of six Arab lives ("La ad Day"). The 30-year-old p •oblem of resettlement of Israel's 50,000 Bedouii in the Negev has been permitted for too long to cal se friction widely exploited for politi- cal purposes i aside the country itself a id causing Israel's image aaroad seri- ous damage. The problem of the vil- lagers of Ikrit and Baram on the Lebanese border, who in the 1950's won their case in Israeli High Court to be permitted to return to their villages, evacuated during the 1948 war, has not been solved. Finally, "the Israeli eco- nomic establishment has so far failed to make the neces- sary effort to co-opt Arabs, and the Histadrut's excep- tion," the head of the Arab. department of the Histad- - rut charged recently. -Mr. Yaakov Cohen added that in the federation's Hevrat Ha'ovdim there were "only five or six Arab employees." There is still a long road to complete equality for Is- rael's half a million Arabs, to a situation in which they will feel themselveg full partners in their home state. Yet, in the fall of 1979 there are signs that Israeli public opinion has a more favorable view of Israel's Arabs and much of the sus- picion, widespread before the 197 3 war, has been al- layed. - SY GINSBERG & AL WINKLER Wish All Their Customers and Friends A HAPPY, HEALTHY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR CLOSING 3 p.m., FRI., SEPT. 21 ... REOPEN TOES., SEPT. 25, 11 a.m. CLOSING 3 p.m., SUN., SEPT. 30 ... REOPEN TOES., OCT. 2, 11 a.m. PICKLE SARRIL DELI A;;;;t, 19801 W. 12 MILE RD. 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