THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 15, 1982 31
Israeli Arabs React to Massacre With First Strike Since 1976
By GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The delicate relations be-
tween Arabs and Jews in Is-
rael suffered another blow
in mid-September as
thousands of Israeli Arabs
staged a general strike, the
first in six years.
Six years ago, the Arabs
in Israel declared a general
strike in protest against the
confiscation of land in the
-Galilee for Jewish develop-
ment projects. Although the
Arabs have persisted in not-
ing "Land Day" every
March 30 since then, they
are careful not to strain re-
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lations with the Jewish
majority and refrained from
holding strikes until now.
But following the mas-
sacre of Palestinians at the
Sabra and Shatila refugee
camps in west Beirut, the
moderate elements among
the Israeli Arabs were
pushed aside or else joined
hands with the radicals.
The_rage against the mas-
sacre swept through all the
segments of the Arab popu-
lation. It was not accidental
that the decision to call a
general strike last week
was taken unanimously at a
meeting of Arab mayors
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which was hosted by Mayor
Ibrahim Nimer Hussein of
Shefaram, a moderate.
Undoubtedly, the pro-
tests which engulfed the
country following the
massacre provided the
legitimacy the Arab
population needed to
take to the streets. Al-
though no one said so
outright, there was a
strong feeling among the
Arabs that any protests
and demonstrations the
Jews could stage, the
Arabs could do better.
The truth, however, is
that the Arab pains over the
carnage were much deeper
than those felt by the Jews.
The inhabitants of the refu-
gee camps in Lebanon are
members of Israeli Arab
families. As the names of
the victims began to reach
Israel, many families went
into mourning.
In addition, while Israeli
Arabs generally refrained
from overly vocal protests
against the war in Lebanon,
the massacre caused the
Arabs to lose all their inhib-
itions.
The general strike took
on violent overtones, espe-
cially in Nazareth, which,
with 50,000 residents, is the
largest Arab town in Israel
proper. Police had to use
force, including firearms, to
disperse the demonstrators
there. When it was all over,
49 civilians had been
wounded, one of them seri-
ously, and 30 policemen
were injured.
The organizers of the
strike demanded a gov-
ernment inquiry com-
mission to investigate
what was said to be ex-
cessive force, but the
police department in-
stead appointed a de-
partmental inquiry
commission, standard
procedure in cases where
firearms are used against
civilians.
Arabs also clashed with
police elsewhere in the
country and demonstra-
tions spread for the first
time to centers where there
are small numbers of Arabs,
such as Haifa and Jaffa, al-
though in those places there
were no reports of anyone
being hurt. The end result of
the day of demonstrations
was a widening rift between
Arabs and Jews, particu-
larly between Arabs and the
Jewish government.
The government as a
whole was fairly silent
about the unrest among the
country's 680,000 Arab citi-
zens. Interior Minister
Yosef Burg and Premier
Menahem Begin's adviser
on Arab affairs, Binyamin
Gur-Arye, merely said they
shared the grief of Israel's
Arabs over the massacre.
President Yitzhak Navon
said he understood the
Arabs' feelings, but urged
them to restrain them-
selves.
The Rakah (Communist)
Party is the immediate
beneficiary of the renewed
crisis. The party, which is
predominantly Arab, was
subjected to serious criti-
cism by Israel's Arabs dur-
ing the war in Lebanon be-
cause of the Soviet Union's
Failure to come to the aid of
the PLO. But in the after-
math of the Beirut mas-
sacre, Rakah realized that it
could act to change its tar-
nished image and it rose to
the challenge.
Community organizers
worked feverishly to help
stage the demonstra-
tion and many Arabs who
had shunned the party
previously now rallied
around its flag. One of the
demonstrators wounded
in the general strike was
Amin Zayyad, 14, the son
of Nazareth's Communist
Mayor Tawfik Zayyad.
The Communists, who
lost a seat in the Knesset to
the Labor Alignment in last
year's election. They are
honing a more militant
anti-government stand in
an effort to counter the
criticism by Israeli Arab
nationalists that they have
been too moderate. If Rakah
continues to pursue this pol-
icy it stands a good chance of
displacing the nationalists
among the Arabs.
Furthermore, with the
radical leadership of the
West Bank Arabs neut-
ralized to an extent, the
nationalist struggle of the
West Bank Arabs may, for
the first time, be led by Is- -
raeli Arabs and not by
Arabs in the administered
territories. It may also
mean that in the period
ahead, the lines of battle
over the future of the West
Bank may take shape not
only in Nablus and Wash-
ington but also in Nazareth
and Shefaram.
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