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LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
he "early empowerment"
extended to West Bank
Palestinians by Israel this
past Monday is the latest
step toward autonomy as Israeli
Arabs look on in envy.
The Aug. 29 Israel-PLO agree-
ment ends 27 years of Israeli con-
trol over education, health,
taxation, tourism and social wel-
fare in the West Bank.
While Israel's 800,000 Arab cit-
izens seem to have no desire for
a state of their own, the past
year's political breakthroughs in
the territories have triggered the
need for a greater sense of em-
powerment. The Palestinians of
the West Bank and Gaza, it
seems, are on their way to getting
a state of their own, while they,
the Palestinians of Israel, remain
second-class citizens.
Expect to start hearing about
"cultural autonomy," a concept
gaining credence in Arab Israeli
intellectual circles. Proponents
want to build an Israeli Arab uni-
versity; determine curricula in
the Arab public schools; control
Arab programming on state-run
Israel Television; and create an
Israeli Arab lottery, separate
from the national ones, to raise
funds for local development, says
Tel Aviv Professor Elie Rekhess,
an expert on Israeli Arabs.
Cultural autonomy, then, is a
kind of cultural separatism.
The notion seems to clash with
the dominant political struggle
in the Israeli Arab community,
which is for civil equality, espe-
cially in local budgeting, and op-
portunity to fully enter Israeli
society.
Israeli Arabs always have been
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torn between their Israeli citi-
zenship and their Arab identity.
Since the intifada, they have gone
through a process of "Pales-
tinization," growing closer in spir-
it to their brethren across the
Green Line, Israel's pre-'67 bor-
der.
The heads of the Arab towns
and villages just finished a 39-
day strike for more government
support, but their fight is far from
over. The Israeli Arab sector has
been getting much more money
from the Rabin government than
it ever got before. Yet decades of
past official neglect — coupled
with local mismanagement and
nepotism — leave their munici-
palities far, far behind Jewish
ones. Some 80 percent of the Arab
towns don't have sewage systems.
Many of their roads hardly de-
serve the name. Their schools,
while improving, do not provide
the sort of education Jewish
pupils get. Roughly 50 percent of
the population lives below the Is-
raeli poverty line.
In the tent across from the
Prime Minister's Office in
Jerusalem where the Arab coun-
cil heads held their marathon
strike, one of the signs read,
"Equality — No Less, No More."
Here the idea of cultural au-
tonomy was not popular. "We've
said from the beginning that our
struggle is not political. We don't
want cultural autonomy or any
kind of autonomy. We want equal
rights and services," said Saleh
Salim, a Knesset member and
mayor of Kafr Ibelin.
The idea of cultural autonomy,
at least with that label, has not
caught on with much of the Is-
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