OPINION Sunday ,January 25, 1981 Page 4 The Michigan Daily Two, In central Israel, there stands a ,iHbbutz, bedecked with flowers an trees, called Dalya. It is renowne economic success, its industry (it ,mammoth detergent factory), and i until a few years ago, the kibbutz 'uge dance festival each year that participants and audiences from Israel. What I found most impressive abo however, was not its physical comfo Obliquity "By Joshua Peck votes for beautiful He has made a personal crusade of per- .d stately suading the Arabs to keep their ancient and d for its distinctive architectural styles intact, even as houses a they begin to modernize their living and ts culture working places. He is concerned that the hosted a Arabs, in hopes of emulating the more attracted technologically advanced societies of Europe, all over will abandon Arabic forms for the monotonous building styles adopted by the Jews of Tel Aviv, ut Dalya, for instance.. rts, or its . In pursuit of his quest, he spends much of his time traveling to Arab towns around the coun- try, meeting with Arab civic and religious leaders, and explaining how modern roads, of- fices and homes can be designed around traditional Arab modes of construction. THE PARTICULARS of Yom-tov's work are clearly unimportant from the point of view of establishing peace; who cares whether the en- trace to some little Arab town is bedecked with a blocky underpass or a gracefully rounded Islamic-style arch? The important thing about hitheatre. the architect's efforts are his motivations, s unosten- especially as interpreted by his Arab vance the colleagues. ny Israeli It is clear that he cares that the non-Jewish tov, which residents of the country sustain their rich He chose traditions. He has respect and deep under- Romania standing for Arab conceptions of beauty, par- rfectly his ticularly (but not exclusively) with regard to architecture. His enthusiasm for things ture - a Islamic and Arab must sit well with the Arabs; ted with here is one Zionist, at least, who clearly wants way he has a harmonious relationship with his Semitic and trust brothers, and not the dominator-and- l borders, dominated arrangement the Arabs generally lated Oc- perceive. One could hardly help be moved by the I goap plant, or even its sprawling amp It was a man, nearing 70, who in his tatious way has done as muph to ad cause of peace in his homeland as a plomat. His name is Simcha Yom-t anslates to "Happiness Holiday." he name when he immigrated from me 50 years ago, and it reflects per timistic outlook and his robustness YOM-TOV PRACTICES architect rofession not ordinarily associa peacemaking - but in a roundabout w begun to build bonds of friendship vith Arabs within Israel's traditiona And now in the heavily Arab-popu 4pied West Bank as well. peace, thought that this one Arabic-speaking Jew could be laying the groundwork for a relation- ship far removed from the currently prevalent mutual hatred and bloodshed. IN THE PORT city of Haifa, an organization called Partnership is at work breaking down the walls between Jew and Arab in a more public fashion. In 1974, just one year after the destructive Yom Kippur war, a Jewish professor named Rachel Rosenzweig and a Christian Arab, Rev. Ibrahim Sim'an, sat down together and began talking about the seemingly insurmountable barriers to peace between their two nations. Ever since then, Partnership has been growing, developing forums for dialogue and debate, and spawning more practical operations like language classes in Arabic for Jews and Hebrew for Arabs. Educational projects and exchange programs, wherein Arab communities send people to stay with their Hebrew counterparts - and'vice versa - have sprung out of the group more recently. More and more Israeli citizens have come to appreciate the Partnership way. The flourishing group provides yet another antidote to pessimism about the prospects for peace.. YET THERE ARE reasons to feel the other way, as well. I found plenty in my conver- sations with the residents of Dheisheh village, the Arab refugee town outside Bethlehem I mentioned in this space last week. The seven students and leaders I spoke with at Dheisheh are more negatively disposed toward Israel that any other Arabs I met. Even Mayor Fahd Kawasme of Hebron, whom Israel expelled for his sympathy with the Weasel WELLIPPA ANO ANC UJNTIL -tlP ,t ISRAELI ARCHITECT SIMCHA Yom-tov shows plans for modernization to Sheikh Muhammad- Ali Jaabary (center, in the plain turban) and other residents of Hebron in the Occupied West Bank. one for stru ale PLO, touts a less radical ideology than the Arabs of Dheisheh. When Kawasme visited the University campus in the fall of 1979, he said the Arabs would lay down their guns as soon as the West Bank and Gaza were granted in- dependence as a Palestine state. Yet at Dheisheh, I was told that the West Bank is no different from Israel proper; all of it is rightly and exclusively Arab land. After three hours of conversation, I was convinced that these men would stop fighting only when the concept of Jewish sovereignty was as foreign to the area as it was during the Middle Ages. The only relief from the dismal prospect of destruction the Dheisheh group offered was the fact that they are far more radical than the majority of their countrymen. One even tacitly conceded that he was a member of Al Fatah, the main terrorist group operating out of Lebanon. Still, Israel and Palestine will never peacefully co-exist unless even these most radical of the Palestinian intellectuals and warriors are appeased,. And, as of yet, ap- peasement does not appear to be a possibility. Joshua Peck is the co-editor of the Daily's Opinion page. His column appears every Sunday. Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan by Robert Lence Vol.XCI, No. 99. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, Ml 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board WIN -o PKAI N oHU. Z PAPER RJl OFF r-K< lLA iNUT lip> LfIS NA4 IVE HOURS AMP LL.I Er4r VEN ThIG LFF1I' Po.., NE JLL-O, DIAL - A- PAPER.? i- 1t f,. New funds for Rec Sports IRST THE University community is told that $3 million must be cut tom the budget..by the next school ,ear. The numJgr doesn't have much nheaning all by itself; we don't worry .o much. w Then we hear that a host of programs and -services-ranging from WUOM to the Extension Service-are o come under close scrutiny as, the udget is trimmed. We start to grow %oncerned, but the cuts seem vague 'and very far off. . Now we are beginning to hear about the specifics, the nitty gritty of cut- backs in peripheral programs esigned to save the key areas of eaching and research from the !avages of a sagging economy. And the $Jniversity community is sweating.