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ne year after Israelis
went to the polls to
elect the 12th
Knesset, a collection of
research papers on how the
state's Arab sector voted has
been published by the
Jerusalem Institute for
Israel Studies.
Taken as a whole, The
Arab Vote in Israel's
Parliamentary Elections,
1988, seems to suggest that
oft-heard claims by politi-
cians and government
policymakers about
radicalization and rejec-
tionism in the Arab sector —
claims often based on little
more than the police blotter
— are at odds with reality.
The papers strongly sug-
gest that while the intifada
has sharpened Palestinian
identity among Israeli
Arabs, who have moved
away from Zionist parties in
recent years, the parties that
enjoy heavy if not exclusive
Arab support have witness-
ed a moderating trend. The
papers also suggest that the
Israeli component of their
identity has remained firmly
intact.
In the first paper, Yosef
Ginat, professor of an-
thropology at Haifa Univer-
- sity and director of the Israel
Academic Center in Cairo,
argues that the struggle for
equality in the Arab sector is
of greater importance than
nationalistic concerns.
While that struggle has
given rise to an Israeli-Arab
nationalism of sorts, it
differs from the Palestinian
nationalism of the Arabs of
the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, Ginat writes.
While Ginat acknowledges
that Palestinian nation-
alism does exist and can be
said to be increasing among
extremist elements (but not,
he says, to any significant
extent), he notes that despite
solidarity, "the Israeli Arab,
even when he claims to be a
Palestinian, has a different
identity from the Arabs of
the territories."
In a statistical study, polit-
ical scientist Avraham
Diskin of the Hebrew Uni-
versity concludes that
despite the intifada, Arab
voting patterns in the 1988
Knesset elections did not
change significantly from
previous parliamentary
balloting. Despite the single
mandate the new Arab
Democratic Party of Abdel
Wahab Daroushe gained at
the expense of the Pro-
gressive List for Peace, the
Arab sector's representation
in the Knesset remained
constant at six.
While the intifada had
significant influence on the
content of election pro-
paganda, it had a neglible
effect on Arab voting pat-
terns, according to Majid Al-
Haj, senior lecturer in
sociology at Haifa Univer-
sity and a visiting lecturer
at Carleton University in
Canada.
Al-Haj argues that while
Israeli-Arab identity com-
prises both nationalistic and
civilian components, a fine
balance between the two
Oft-heard claims
about
radicalization and
rejectionism in the
Arab sector —
claims often based
on little more than
the police blotter —
are at odds with
reality.
continues to be maintained,
even in the face of the upris-
ing. While the intifada has
sharpened the contrast bet-
ween them, he says, the
change wasn't radical
enough to influence voting
patterns and political
behavior.
Ilan Grilsmer, a political
scientist at Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity, concludes that the
desire of Rakach (the Com-
munist Party) to remain
within the framework of the
Israeli, consensus has led it
to moderate its positions to a
significant extent, putting
itself at risk in the process.
"From the one direction,
Rakach is threatened by the
Progressive List for Peace
and the Moslem fundamen-
talists," he writes, "and
from the other by the three
parties to the left of Labor in
the Israeli consensus,
Daroushe (the ADP), the
Citizens Rights Movement
and Mapam, who say to
potential Rakach voters:
Even though we support two
states for two peoples, in
contrast to the Communists,
we put ourselves within the
Israeli consensus, not out-
side of it."
Yitzhak Reiter, an orien-
talist and researcher with