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A Palestinian State:
Democracy Nightmare?
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
Special to The Jewish News
I
n companion pieces on
the op-ed page of Mon-
day's New York Times,
the probable character of an
independent Palestinian
state in Gaza and the West
Bank was debated by a
member of the Palestine Na-
tional Council and a U.S. ex-
pert on Islam. The future
they envisioned for these
troubled territories are as dif-
ferent as shalom and salaam
The "inevitable" Palestin-
ian state will "surely be
democratic and secular,"
predicts Ibrahim Abu-Lug-
hod, a member of the Pales-
tine National Council and
chairman of Northwestern
University's political science
department. Its "herculean
tasks" will include "reinte-
grating the dispersed Pales-
tinian Arabs and "transform-
ing the conflict with Israel in-
to peaceful and equal coex-
istence."
Medical and mercantile in-
stitutions already developed
by Palestinians, writes Abu-
Lughod, "offer a vision of a
Palestine shared with Israel's
Jewish community, the pre-
cise mode of sharing to be
freely decided by both
peoples."
But to Daniel Pipes, direc-
tor of the Foreign Policy
Research Institute, an in-
dependent Palestinian state
would be anything but peace-
ful, democratic or desirous of
coexistence with most Middle
East nations. The "biggest
losers" of such a state, in fact,
would be the Arabs.
Run by the "avaricious, self-
serving leadership" of the
PLO, a Palestinian state
would resemble southern
Lebanon from 1975 to 1982,
years when the PLO "enjoyed
nearly sovereign authority"
in that portion of Lebanon.
Then, PLO members "ran
amok." They stole, dealt in
drugs and operated protection
rackets.
Syrian President, Hafez al-
Assad — and, possibly, Libya's
Muammar el-Qaddafi and
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini —
would "goad" the new state
against Israel, warned Pipes.
With the full powers of a
state, the PLO could extort
money and favors from the
"rich, but weak" countries of
the Persian Gulf. The most
exposed of the Arab states "to
this new menace" would be
the "frail monarchy of Jor-
dan." A PLO-run Palestinian
state would also offer the
Kremlin "a new outpost of in-
fluence strategically wedged
between two important
friends of America?'
Tackling Jesse,
Arabs and Kahane
Almost as if it refused to be
outdone by the more conser-
vative New Republic, which
devotes a major story or two
each week of special interest
to Jews, last week's issue of
The Nation had three articles
that might boost its circula-
tion in certain Jewish circles:
one on Jesse Jackson and
Jews, another on Arab
Israelis, and a third on the
Palestinian uprisings' boon to
Israel's radical right.
According to Norman Birn-
baum, a member of The Na-
tion's editorial board, "some
Jewish leaders' deny legiti-
macy to Jackson for the same
reason that many black lead-
Self-serving
leadership
ers have been wary of him: He
speaks directly to the people?'
"Official" leaders of Jewish
organizations, says Birn-
baum, prefer to negotiate
with other groups' "author-
ized" leaders.
On top of Jewish leaders'
oft-stated suspicions that
Jackson has "insufficiently
overcome anti-Semitism,"
they are also "indignant"
that Jackson doesn't think
Jews' anti-apartheid efforts
"requires compensatory dis-
cretion on Palestinian rights"
by blacks.
But deeper, said Birnbaum,
may lurk another "stratum of
resentment:" "No Jewish
politician has dared challenge
American anti-Semitism by
seeking a place on a major
party's presidential ticket?'
In another article, Bernard
Avishai speculates that cur-
rent turmoil in Gaza and the
West Bank will prompt a com-
plete reformation of the
status of Israeli Arabs.
Avishai, associate editor of
Harvard Business Review and
author of The Tragedy of
Zionism, writes that many of
Israel's institutions and
ideological principles are
"deeply vulnerable" to the
claims of the 750,000 Arabs
who are its citizens. The oc-
cupied territories' uprisings
have "swelled [Arab Israelis']
desire" for "full, meaningful
civil equality . . . They see no
reason why the state should
fail to grant this . . . simply
because they constitute 17
percent of the population