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East Jerusalem Arabs are al-
lowed to hold dual Jordanian-
Israeli citizenship.) In addition,
Israeli authorities are much less
suspicious of Arabs who can pre-
sent Israeli papers.
But Bassam Eid, an East
Jerusalem journalist and human
rights activist, said the phenom-
enon goes beyond the mere desire
for less hassle. "Aftei. 27 years of
occupation, the irony is that
many Palestinians in East
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guilty of "treason." This has al-
ways been the standard Pales-
tinian view — that accepting
Israeli citizenship was tanta-
mount to acknowledging Israeli
sovereignty over all of Jerusalem,
which is anathema to the Pales-
tinian national cause.
"We're very happy about the
trend," said a spokeswoman for
the Jerusalem Municipality. This
has always been the official
Israeli position — that East
Jerusalem Arabs should accept
Israeli citizenship so they can be-
come full members of society, and
so the national struggle over the
capital can be ended in Israel's
favor.
Do the lines of people on
Nablus Road mean that East
Jerusalem Palestinians are start-
ing to throw in their lot with the
Israelis? Or are they just making
a technical change in-status for
practical reasons, which has no
political significance? It depends
on whom you ask.
Ziad Abu Ziad, a lawyer, jour-
nalist and longtime pro-PLO ac-
tivist in East Jerusalem, argued
that for the capital's Arabs, an Is-
raeli passport "is only a document
that makes it easier to travel
abroad and within Israel."
With the Jordanian passport
held by a majority of East
Jerusalem Palestinians, they still
need a visa to fly to most Euro-
pean countries. With an Israeli
passport they don't, Mr. Abu Ziad
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ast Jerusalem The lines are
long outside the Israeli In-
terior Ministry's office on
Nablus Road in Arab East
Jerusalem. Most of the people are
waiting to register routine
changes in their families' status
— births, deaths, marriages, di-
vorces, new addresses.
Some, however, are quietly
planning a change of status that
used to be unheard of among the
capital's 150,000-plus Palestini-
ans: They are requesting, and re-
ceiving, Israeli citizenship.
About 1,000 East Jerusalem
Arab families asked to become Is-
raeli citizens last year, and some
400 families made the request in
1993, said Interior Ministry
spokeswoman Tova Elinson.
They represent a total of 7,000 to
10,Q00 people.
"The requests started to come
in about the time of the Oslo Ac-
cord [September 1993], and the
numbers have been growing
steadily since," Ms. Elinson said.
These petitions for citizenship are
routinely granted, she added.
Israel offered citizenship to all
Jerusalem Arabs as soon as it an-
nexed the capital's eastern sector
following the Six Day War. But
until the Oslo Accord, fewer than
100 families took Israel up on the
offer, said Gershon Baskin, di-
rector of the Israel-Palestine Cen-
ter for Research and Information,
located in East Jerusalem.
Asked if he knew any Jeru-
salem Arabs who had recently be-
come Israeli citizens, Mr. Baskin
replied, "I don't know anyone who
admits to it. It's not something
they're very proud of .... The
people in East Jerusalem are
basically Palestinian nationalists
and loyalists, and they view this
negatively."
In a recent sermon, Sheikh
Ikirmeh Sabri, the PLO-
appointed mufti, or chief Islam-
ic authority, of Jerusalem, said
the newly fledged Israelis were
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