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Rustum Bastuni:
His Tale
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in our
Classified
Section
of long ago, I chanced
across an obituary notice
which recorded laconical-
ly that Rustum Bastuni
had died in New York at the age
of 71, though his passing went
almost unnoticed in the Israeli
press. My mind leaped back in
time.
In the early 1950s, continu-
ing a tradition in Haifa which
we have followed for many years
previously in the United States,
we opened our home to a week-
ly gathering for discussion of
pressing problems of the day. At
one such session, I recall, an
American tourist expressed him-
self in strong terms. "I wouldn't
trust an Arab. The only good
Arab is a dead Arab," he said
with some bitterness.
A tall, handsome participant,
whom I did not know, asked for
the floor. "I am an Arab," he de-
clared as a hush settled over the
room. "I am a member of the
Knesset; my name is Rustum
Bastuni." He proceeded to make
the-case of the mutual friend-
ship and understanding be-
tween Arabs and Jews. It was a
memorable occasion.
Mr. Bastuni was a student at
the Technion before the creation
of the state. Because the Tech-
nion campus, in midtown Haifa,
was also a center of under-
ground Haganah activity which
was kept secret from the British,
admission to the grounds was
for a time limited to those who
held special passes. The head of
the Israeli guard committee de-
nied a permit to Mr. Bastuni.
There was no reason to suspect
Mr. Bastuni's loyalty, but it was
feared that if he were given un-
limited access to the grounds,
Arab extremists would suspect
him of being a collaborator and
might seek to kill him. The de-
cision was taken, therefore, out
of a desire to help the student.
He graduated with a degree in
architecture.
Mr. Bastuni practiced as an
architect in Haifa and designed
many buildings for Arab towns
and villages, serving also as an
assistant to the Haifa city town
planner. In 1951, at the age of
28, he was elected as a member
of the Knesset from the Ma am
party and served for four years.
A stalwart advocate of the na-
tionalist aspirations of the Pales-
tinians, he was, nevertheless, a
realist and supported the State
of Israel, while constantly agi-
tating for true equality for its
Arab citizens. He clashed with
the left-wing politicians and in
1961 announced his retirement
from political life. At the time,
he gave utterance to his princi-
ples: "The existence of the State
of Israel is to the benefit of all
Mediterranean peoples ... It is
in the interests of both the Arab
states and Israel to find a basis
for co-existence based on mutu-
al respect and recognition of the
national rights of all peoples, in-
cluding the Jewish people."
His personal life was unhap-
py. His first wife, a Polish Chris-
tian, attacked him in the
scandal sheets. His second wife
was a Jewess.
In 1967, immediately after
the Six day War, he told the
Jerusalem Post: "The capital of
Israel is one city and we are not
prepared to have it divided any
more." Further: "The Western
Bank is a complementary and
organic part of the rest of Israel's
territory." He did not relinquish
his beliefs in Palestinian na-
tionalism.
Unable to adjust to the polit-
ical climate, he left Israel in
1969 and became an American
citizen. He married again, also
to a Jewess. Mr. Bastuni was
frequently called upon to lecture
for Jewish audiences and some
may recall his balanced presen-
tations of the conflict.
There was an ironic develop-
ment to his career as an archi-
tect in America. He worked for
a large New York firm which
was angling for contracts in
Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Fear-
ful lest their employment of an
ex-Israeli might injure their
chances because of the Arab boy-
cott, they dismissed Mr. Bastu-
ni, the Palestinian Muslim.
He visited Israel in 1988. In
1995, he died in New York.
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