CONTENTS

OPINION

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CLOSE-UP

World Of Chasidim

LEHMAN WEICHSELBAUM
Take a glimpse at the inner world
of a special branch of Orthodoxy.

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LIFE IN ISRAEL

Chilly & Cold

ARTHUR M. HORWITZ
Floating in the Jordan's waters
chills the body but not the soul.

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KIDS

Pressure
To Win

Palestinians in Gaza: 'Cut the ulcer clear:

The Removal Of The Arabs
Is The Kindest Action For Israel

MICHAEL DALLEN

alestine belongs to the Jews. We
must build a fence around it and
move the Arabs out." Meir Kahane
talking? No. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The Arab-Jewish transfer proposals
have a long history. Theodore Herzl, in the
1890s, wanted to resettle Palestine's Arabs
in Iraq and Syria. In the 1920s, Nobel
Peace Prize winner Fridtjof Nansen, chief
author of the massive Turkish-Greek
population exchange, advocated a similar
plan. President Herbert Hoover and Harry
St. John Philby, leading British Arabist,
devoted years to working out transfer
plans.
They came to nothing, of course, killed
in part by a lack of Jewish interest. Philby,
who couldn't imagine a bloc of Arabs liv-
ing under Jewish rule, told the Jewish
Agency that by refusing to support the
transfer idea, "You are writing your
epitaph." Only a few years earlier, Chaim
Weizmann argued, "Our borders will be the
Jordan River and the Mediterranean. We
must have a population transfer because of
the small size of the Jewish state." Britain's
Palestine Royal Commission agreed.
In 1976, 40 years after the commission
report, the U.S. Library of Congress releas-
ed its own study. Based on exiting trends,
American experts predicted that Arabs
would become a majority within 100 years.
The study completely excluded the popula-
tions of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza trip.
It assumed a net Jewish immigration rate
of 25,000 a year — a wild exaggeration,
retrospectively. Other observers, more
recently, have given a Jewish majority less
than 70 years.
In addition to the almost 1.4 million
"Palestinians" in Judea, Samarai and

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Michael Dallen is a director of Americans
For a Safe Israel in Michigan.

Gaza, the Israeli Arab "Palestinian"
population is growing explosively. Subsidiz-
ed by Israel's b'tuach leumi (national in-
surance), Israeli Arabs have the highest
live birth rate in the world. From about 11
percent of the total Israeli census in 1950,
Israeli Arabs now make up some 20 percent
of the population. Their population, about
700,000 now, doubles almost every 15
years.
In the United States — but anywhere
else? — the ethnic makeup of the nation
hardly matters. Americans share a set of
laws and attitudes that, regardless of race, -
creed or origin, according to both Constitu-
tion and popular commitment, maintain
the system.
Many countries foster a single, ex-
clusive ethnicity; others impose disabilities
on minorities; some maintain a sham
equalitarianism. The Jewish state — of all
countries! — has tried to adopt the
American model, and shares political
power with Israeli Arabs in strict propor-
tion to their numbers.
After more than 40 years, where do
Israeli Arab loyalties lie? Jews imagined
that providing Arabs with better material
living standards, education and other
social benefits — far beyond anything they
could expect in any Arab country — would
win their loyalty to Israel. Events since
1949, particularly since December 1987,
have all but destroyed such hopes.
Israeli Arabs call themselves Palesti-
nians. Their conversation, voting patterns
and culture ovewhelmingly identify with
the Palestinian cause.
Israel cannot absorb the Arabs in
Judea, Samaria and Gaza and remain
Jewish and democratic. Neither can it
relinquish those districts, and allow them
to become an embyonic "Palestinian Na-
tional Homeland?'
Other concerns notwithstanding,
Israeli Jews fear that Israeli Arabs would

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LINDA R. BENSON
Parents should
be aware
of positive
and negative
aspects of sports.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Dynamic Duo

RITA CHARLESTON
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme
share their lives and careers.

NOTEBOOK

The Oaxaca Mystery

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SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE
A Mexican market reveals the secret
world of "Jewish" Indians.

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POLITICS

Pollack's Leap

SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE
Ann Arbor's Lana Pollack is trying
to jump from legislature to Congress.

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SINGLE LIFE

Hawaii 5-0 Plus

A Temple Israel group recreates
the enchantment of the islands.

DEPARTMENTS

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Inside Washington
Synagogues
Sports
For Women
Business
B'nai B'rith

B'nai Mitzvah
Engagements
For Seniors
Youth
Births
Obituaries

CANDLELIGHTING

September 2, 1988 7:47 p.m.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 7

