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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 AP/PETR DEJONG tt bkmake tw Wili:O.4, $259 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 es S- .g1 SALE 20% - 50% OFF SELECTED ITEMS prior sales & special orders excluded 120 Inside the Orchard Mall • West Bloomfield • (810) 737-4888 Confrontations, not citizenship, are the normal expectation.