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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Nuances of Truth: NYTimes on Israeli Arabs
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of war which has not known
- a day of peace in its entire
existence. Its neighbors are
not only committed to its
destruction, but employ an
ongoing world-wide cam-
paign of psychological,
political and financial war-
fare to help bring that aim
about. Many of the Arabs
who have stayed in Israel
identify closely with the
Arab world and with the
Palestinian Diaspora corn-
munity, and though they
themselves don't call for Is-
rael's destruction, the Arab
world and Palestinian Dias-
pora do. Moreover, the
region in which Israel exists
and in which 99 percent of
Arabs reside, is one that
provides few democratic
rights to Arab-Moslem citi-
zens of the various states,
not to mention outright exc-
lusion and even violence
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those who are not
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Jews, Copts, Kurds, etc.
In this environment, it is
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remarkable to observe the
situation of Israeli Arabs.
Of course, there are prob-
lems, inequities, suspicions,
hatreds, stereotypes — in
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what society are there not
and particularly in this con-
text? And, of course, there is
great need to find ways to
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But the real story is one
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rael, there were 9,500
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students; today there are
200,000. In 1948, the illit-
eracy rate among Arabs
was 80 percent; today it is
less than 20 percent, and
among the young it is
close to zero. In 1946, the
life expectancy of Arabs
in Palestine was 46 years;
in 1983 it was 70 for
males, 73.4 for females,
one of the highest in the
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IMO unomismiumemsammarissinommilliullIMIII tory existence despite the
state of war and hostility
continually being pro-
THE YIDDISH THEATER AND THE
claimed by the Arabs sur-
JEWISH INFLUENCE ON THE
rounding Israel. The way
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America dealt with its
Japanese-American popu-
Paul Winter,
lation in World War II
Wayne State University Humanities
points out how even in
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democratic societies the
pressures to coerce people
Wednesday, February 8
perceived to be identified
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with the enemy is great.
The fact that Israel has not
only resisted- this tempta-
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tion, but has taken great
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strides to foster equality
Month
and progress for all its citi-
zens is a story which merits
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attention and should be
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Tuesday, March 6
None of the informaiton
presented in the above ver-
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sion of the situation would
be untrue. But like Ship-
AND A TIME TO DANCE
ler's, though in different
ways, the story it tells — its
The Jewish People and the Dance
undue focus on environ-
Harriet Berg .
ment and context, its de-
Choreographer and a dance
emphasis on actual percep-
performance
tions in society, its tendency
to find a justification for
Where:
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problems — is essentially
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The imbalance in Ship-
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Arabs.
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pattern
runs
through the pieces.
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way the articles deal with
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