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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