/Welcome
I To Palestine
The Campus Consensus
Jewish and Palestinian students at the
University of Michigan favor formal statehood.
consume Israel," said Roth, a 20 year-
old business administration major
Special to The Jewish News
from Cincinnati.
Roth added that she thinks the
Ann Arbor
Israelis really want peace, more than
ewish student leaders at the
anything else, and yet all I've heard
University of Michigan say
from the Palestinians is they want a
they don't particularly fear this
state." Roth said it appears to her that
year's expected declaration of
the two sides "don't have a common
a Palestinian state and think, in fact, it
goal,"indicating that problems remain
might help Israel.
in forging a sturdy peace.
Likewise, Palestinian student leaders
Roth and Tigay co-chair the Israel
welcome independence, but doubt it'll
Michigan Public Affairs Committee
automatically solve the fledgling state's
(IMPAC), the other major Jewish stu-
pressing economic woes. In fact, they see
dent political group on campus.
the issue of upgrading the Palestinians'
Tigay said she thinks it will take a
economic conditions as having a higher
lot of time to get a [Palestinian] gov-
priority now than independence.
ernment up and running, and to get
"If the Palestinian Authority is
an adequate infrastructure in place.
declared (a state) and living conditions
The senior from West Bloomfield
don't change, and people don't see any
views Palestinian independence as
difference, there's no point," said
healthy and hopes it will lead to
Bisan Salhi, a 20-year-old leader of the
greater economic cooperation between
Arab American Anti-Discrimination
the new nation and Israel.
Committee (ADC).
"Even if there is a cold peace —
For their part, Jewish students said
one based on security concerns alone
having a Palestinian state could
— it's welcome, said Ti gay.
advance the peace in the Mideast.
Palestinian student leaders at U-M
"I think it should happen," said Scott
feel much the same way as the Jewish
Eisenberg, a 21-year-old University of
students when it comes to the impor-
Michigan senior, who co-founded and
tance of economic cooperation. The
helps lead a student group called
Palestinian students say it's vital for a
American Movement for Israel (AMI).
permanent peace. Some say they don't
"If it can happen in such a way that it
put as much stock in formal statehood
can improve the lives of the Palestinians,
right now.
and also improve the . security of Israel ...
"There'll be wild celebration ..."
under those theoretical consequences, I
then the Palestinians will "end up with
believe it should happen."
worse than a developing nation,"said
Jewish student leaders Donielle
Will Youmans, a 20-year-old pre-law
Tigay and Lani Roth share Eisenberg's
student from Grosse Ile and co-leader
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hopes. "I think it's actually a good
of ADC. He said Palestinians need
thing, assuming their purpose is not to
"economic sovereignty, more than
political independence"at this time,
adding that college educations, loans
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Diplomatic History
The formal discussion of the legitima-
cy of "Palestine" usually refers back to
three United Nations resolutions.
The first, U.N. Resolution 181,
adopted Nov. 29, 1947, divided
mandatory Palestine into an Arab
state, a Jewish state and an interna-
tional zone that included Jerusalem
and Bethlehem.
The 1947 borders would have
allotted nearly 60 percent of the ter-
ritory to the Jewish state — more
than half of which was the Negev
Desert — and 40 percent to the Arab
state, including the entire contempo-
rary West Bank and Gaza Strip, and
the northern towns of Acre and
Nahariya.
Israel accepted the plan and then
declared independence in May 1948.
The Arab League forcefully rejected it,
precipitating the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The cease-fire lines after the war
pretty much served as Israel's borders
until the Six Day War of 1967, when
the Jewish state gained control of the
West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan
Heights and Sinai Desert.