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River Ph: (810) 478-3133 Venus Plaza. 6046 Rochester Rd. Ph: (810) 879-1010 All store open dally10:00 until 500. 5aturzlaY. Cthitots Troy, Sterling and Walled Lake open t 600. Sunday all storve, „ . . Feet" If you are experiencing any foot prob- lems you know how painful it can be. Dr Lazar specializes in heel spurs • warts • callouses and corns • sports injuries • ingrown nails • mycotic nails • foot deformities • diabetes and fractures. Dr. Lazar can provide free transportation as needed or he can make house calls as needed. Dr. Lazar Has Moved His Office To A New Loca- tion That Is Within Easy Access From 1-696 Daniel Lazar D.P.M. P.C. 15300 W. Nine Mile Rd. Oak Park (2 blocks E. of Greenfield) (810) 967-3668 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 T 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- BEDFORD VILLA NURSING CARE CENTER The Privacy and Comfort of Home Bedford Villa is a charming 61 bed nursing center specializing in Rehabilitative Services. The intimate size of our center allows for personalized attention. 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