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sponsoring a soccer team. The move-
even in the long run, to turn Israel into
ment's two low-cost nursery schools
a state ruled according to Islamic law, in
each has about 75 kids, and each has a
which Jews would at best be a "tolerated
long waiting list, he notes.
minority."
The money for all this comes in con-
"If Bibi were to become convinced of
tributions from the faithful, collected at
the righteousness of Islam and turn
the movement's local charity office, Abu
Israel into an Islamic state, that would
Roumi says, noting that special causes
be wonderful," he said sarcastically, "but
demand special effort. "If somebody
we have to deal with reality as it is." He
needs, let's say, a liver transplant that
insisted that the movement is non-vio-
might cost $40,000 or $50,000, we'll
lent, law-abiding, and that while it con-
stand outside the mosques on Friday
siders Zionism inherently, discriminatory
and collect the money," he says.
against gentiles, it is only trying to
Tamra's would-be Islamic fundamen-
improve Moslems' lives, not turn them
talist mayor is a quiet, polite man whose
into a rebel army.
dark eyes become riveting when he's
Asked his opinion of Hamas, Abu
making an important point. He dresses
Roumi replied, "Hamas is a liberation
in modern clothes and wears a short
movement in the West Bank and Gam.
beard. Wa'el Diab, who heads the move-
We don't agree with terror, but who cre-
ment's Tamra
ated the condi-
branch but is not
tions that caused
running in the elec-
the terror?" He
tion, is clean-shaven.
claimed Hamas
Ultimately, Diab
would settle for a
says, he hopes all
state in the West
Moslem men will
Bank and Gaza
wear beards. "But
alone, and let
we're not at that
Israel live in peace
stage yet. Right
within its pre-
now, I find that
1967 borders, if
being clean-shaven
only Israel would
is better for dealing
agree.
with the public," he
In manner and
explains.
even in content,
- Abu Roumi, Israeli Arab
Rekhess said he
Abu Roumi
didn't see the Islamic
sounded moder-
Movement making
ate, peaceable. But
a quantum leap in power in November,
as an Islamic fundamentalist political
as it did in the 1989 municipal elec-
leader, should he be believed?
tions. Rather, he said, the movement
The Islamic Movement in Israel,
would probably consolidate its standing,
replied Rekhess, was divided between
but was focusing with surgical precision
"minimalists"
those whose true goals
on a few races where it stood a strong
were the ones outlined by Abu Roumi
chance of gaining new strength.
— and the "maximalists"
whose true
"The Islamic Movement is very cal-
goals were the ones outlined in the
culating," he said. "They examine the
report out of the prime minister's Office.
territory carefully, and only run where
It was extremely difficult, Rekhess
they feel highly confident."
added, to tell who was who.
Along with the rest of Israel's 1 mil-
Noting that the movement has not
lion Arabs, Moussa Abu Roumi reacted
incited to violence, called for the over-
angrily to a recent report emanating
throw of the Zionist state, or given
from Prime Minister Binyamin
Israeli authorities any excuse at all to
Netanyahu's office that described Israeli
crack down on it, he continued:
Arabs as "a potential security threat,"
"Clearly the Islamic Movement is not
and the Islamic Movement as the van-
actively plotting to realize any maxi-
guard of such a trend, whose ultimate
malist goals. But the $64,000 question
aim is to turn Israel into an Islamic state.
is: If and when this growing force
(The Prime Minister's Office insisted
gathers more and more strength, will
that Netanyahu did not view Israeli
it be transformed into a strategic
Arabs this way, and that he had not seen
threat?"
the report.)
The answer, he said, depended largely
The report was representative of an
on whether the state, representing the
extreme right wing" approach, Abu
Jewish majority, ended its traditional
Roumi said, which sought to strip Israeli
policy of "disastrous neglect of the Arab
Arabs of their rights as citizens. Despite
sector, and refusal to recognize that
what the report claimed, Abu Roumi
while Israel is a Jewish state, it is not
said the movement has no plans, not
exclusively Jewish." PI
"The leaders of
the movement are
educated, and
they know how to
get things done."
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