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YOUR LIGHTING SPECIALISTS BIRMINGHAM • 6580 Telegraph at Maple • 626-2548 ROCHESTER • 200 E. Second Street • 651-4302 SOUTHFIELD • 20855 Telegraph at Eight Mile Road • 353-0510 18 FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1988 v. cent of the land on the West Bank and 30 percent of Gaza, for both security reasons and for Jewish settlers. Moreover, Arab land and water rights have been severely curtailed and the in- dustrial base of the territories remains primitive. In essence, Israel has been accused of treating the territories as a vast reservoir of cheap labor for Israeli industry and as a captive market for Israeli products. Most Palestinians are scornful of Israeli claims that the territories are "on hold" pending their final disposi- tion in a peace settlement. Their vision of reality is that Israel has no intention of ever giving up the biblical heart- land it knows as Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Gratitude is quite evidently not at the top of the Palestin- ian agenda today. The fact is that the wealthier, healthier and more educated the Pales- tinians become, the more they chafe at their Israeli masters. Better living standards simp- ly serve to fuel the spiral of dissent and unrest. The revolution in the lives of the Palestinians has given birth to the 'paradoxical phenomenon of our times: what the political scientists call the revolution of rising expectations. Such expectations have nothing to do with conven- tional Western concepts of material success; rather, they are grounded in demands for the political expression of religious and national aspira- tions. "It's a well-known Third World syndrome that is also evident throughout the Arab world", says Dr. Yossi Olmert, a political scientist at the Tel Aviv University. "What's im- portant here is that it was the young people who were out on the streets throwing the stones and doing the rioting — young people who were born into the occupation, who know no other reality. "Unlike their parents, they have no memories of what it was like under Jordanian and Egyptian rule. In comparison, the Israeli occupation is very benign, but as far as the young Palestinians are con- cerned, it is occupation. Period?' They don't compare it with anything else. "The kids throwing the stones are rela- tively well educated. They read newspapers, watch tele- vision and they are guided by the Palestinian intelligentsia — the lawyers, doctors, engi- neers — who have been the greatest beneficiaries of Israel's drive to improve the educational standards. "These people aren't out on the streets themselves, but they are motivating and in- citing others. They are fully exploiting the built-in con- straints on Israeli society and of the international con- straints on Israel as well. "They are also very aware of the debates and schisms within Israel over the fate of the occupied territories. There has never been so much talk about the subject as in the past year, and the Palestinians are very aware of the impact that the television scenes of violence and unrest has on the debate?' Indeed, some Israelis be- lieve that they may be enter- ing their own Vietnam. Just as Americans were deeply af- The healthier and wealthier the Palestinians become, the more they chafe at their Israeli masters. fected by the scenes of violence and devastation from Vietnam that were carried in- to their homes every evening on their television screens, so too are Israelis, who are dai- ly having to confront their own predicament. "On the other hand," said one observer, "this con- tinuous stream of violence could have the effect of toughening their resolve and increasing demands to deal with the violence by even more violence; of showing the Palestinians that they do in- deed have everything to lose by rising up against Israel." In the meantime, the main item on the Palestinian agen- da today — indeed, the only item — is the drive to state- hood; a drive that is being fueled by a heady combina- tion of nationalist and relig- ious dogma, and one that has been made extremely bumpy by the determination of the Israelis not to let go. There is, however, a certain historical inevitability about what has been happening in the West Bank and Gaza. For better or for worse, the Palestinians have embarked on a course which, given all current indications, appears to be irreversible. The ques- tion which now is how much more blood — Palestinian and Israeli — will have to be shed before the process runs its course.