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n the plaques and
citations that cover
the walls of Nawaf
Massalha's salon in
Kafr Kara, two images
dominate — Jerusalem's
Dome of the Rock mosque,
and the wrench-like symbol
of the Histadrut labor union.
Mr. Massalha is of both
these worlds. He is an Israeli
Arab, a Moslem (though a
non-observant one) whose
family has lived in this Arab
town for nearly 250 years.
He is also a veteran union
leader, who parlayed his
power in the Labor Party-
controlled Histadrut into po-
litical power. He is now
Labor's only Arab Knesset
. member, and as deputy min-
ister of health, the only Arab
in the government.
He symbolizes the Arab
who is at home in the Israeli
Jewish mainstream but still
. maintains his Arab identity.
A great many of Israel's
900,000 Arabs — those who
live i in Israel proper, not the
Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza — find this
an impossible feat. They are
neither Palestinian nor fully
Israeli; their loyalties are
divided.
Usually, Mr. Massalha can
comfortably reconcile his
own dual political nature.
Since the Dec. 17 expulsions
of over 400 Palestinian ex-
tremists to Lebanon, though,
it has become a precarious
balance.
"He's trying to dance at
two weddings," said an
Israeli Arab in a restaurant
just outside of Kafr Kara,
located in Israel's north-
central area known as the
"Arab Triangle."
"How can he look at his
children when they watch
the news and see the
deportees in Lebanon, know-
ing that he serves in the
government that put them
there?" asked another.
Mr. Massalha says he gets
these kinds of questions face-
to-face from some Israeli
Arabs these days. He gets
them even though he has
opposed the expulsions
publicly and repeatedly.
Along with the great
majority of Israeli Arabs,
Mr. Massalha observed a
one-day strike last week in
protest against the deporta-

tions. In fact, Mr. Massalha
was on the Israeli Arab
leadership committee —
dominated by politicians far
to the left of Labor —that
called for the strike.
Israel's Arabs were quick
to condemn Hamas' murder
of border policeman Nissim
Toledano, the last in a series
of terrorist killings that led
to the deportation of the
Hamas and Islamic Jihad
activists. A number of
Israeli Arabs made con-
dolence visits to the
Toledano family. However,
the Arab community oppos-
ed the deportations with the
same near-unanimity as
Israel's Jews applauded
them.
"If it can happen to them
(the deportees), it can
happen to us," was a refrain
heard often from Israeli
Arabs.
The Knesset members of
the left-wing Arab parties
are threatening to drop their

"I give Rabin
another
year-and-a-half.
If he hasn't made
peace by then,
I'm getting out of
politics
altogether."

Nawaf Massalha

support for the Rabin
government. Mr. Massalha
is not ready to take that step
yet, but says, "If Rabin
deports any more people, I
will resign from this
government."
Mr. Massalha, a. tall,
weary-looking 48, is a
typically gracious Arab poli-
tician. He greets visitors and
favor-seekers wearing an
old-fashioned black suit, lays
out bowls of fruit and keeps
the Turkish coffee fresh. For
20 years, the source of his
power in the Arab commun-
ity has been his mutual loy-
alty with the Labor Party;
today, because of the expul-
sions, he feels betrayed, and

sounds like anything but a
party loyalist.
"The deportations are a
justification for transfer,
that's what humiliated me,"
he said. "If Arik Sharon
becomes defense minister
again one day and decides to
throw out 5,000 Palestin-
ians, who will be able to tell
him no?"
Health Minister Haim
Ramon, his boss and long-
time ally, proved a
"disappointment" by endor-
sing the deportations, Mr.
Massalha noted. "Ramon
wants to be prime minister. I
used to support him 100 per-
cent of the time, but now I'm
going to think very carefully
before I give him my back-
ing."
Mr. Massalha made it
clear that he has no use for
Hamas, and sees it as a
fanatical organization that
terrorizes Jews and Palesti-
nians alike. He also agreed
that after the Hamas kill-
ings, a crack-down was
necessary. "But the
government didn't throw out
the murderers, the
murderers are still ruin
- ning
free," he pointed out.
What, then, should Mr.
Rabin have done with the
hundreds of llamas ac-
tivists, those described by
the government and army as
"inciters"?
"Put them in jail," Mr.
Massalha replied. And if jail
is nothing more than a train-
ing ground for Hamas, a
trade school for terrorists?
"If we can't stop them by
putting them in jail, then
what do we expect to achieve
by staying in the territories?"
During Labor's election
campaign, Mr. Massalha
headed the party's drive in
the Arab sector. He brought
in considerable Arab sup-
port, telling constituents
that the best route to social
advancement was through
the political establishment,
and that Rabin was corn-
mitted to making peace with
the Palestinians. "Now peo-
ple tell me, 'We supported
Rabin, and look what
happened.' "
Mr. Massalha hasn't lost
hope. "I still tell people that
this is the best government
of all the possible alter-
natives.

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