March 18, 1986 (vol. 96, iss. 113) • Page Image 4
…4 OPINION Page4 Tuesday, March 18, 1986 The Michigan Daily A Edite andmnaged bstudntst nstichigan Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan An Israel Vol. XCVI, No. 113 420…
… our lesson. Muhammaed Darawashi is a 22-year-old Israeli Arab who lives in the village of Iksal, near Nazareth in the Central Galilee of Israel. Last week, while Darawashi was in Ann Arbor, he shared…
… his thought on topics ranging from his personal struggle as an Arab within Israel to the Middle East con- flict. Daily Opinion Page staffer Peter Ephross interviewed Darawashi in Darawashi's third…
… The Institute for Education for Co-existence between Arabs and Jews. I worked in a program called Perach which is like the Big Brother program here. I was coordinator for the Arabrsection, which…
… included about 265 students. I worled the last year and a half in the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) as a Parliamentary Assistant... "When I got to Hebrew U. (in Jerusalem), I was a very radical, right…
… is that we have to go for war, that we have to fight for these things. There I had the chance to know that my struggle is not only an Arab struggle, Jewis can pass the same struggle also... My fight…
… for democracy is not only an Arab fight; it's a fight that both Jews and Arabs can live with. I didn't realize the misassumption I was putting myself in. I was relying on the historical basis the…
… Palestinians have there and at the same time denying the same right for Jews." ON HIS STAY IN AMERICA: "I'm here until the end of September this year, working and bettering Jewish-Arab relations here first of…
… and within the American community is Palestianian-Terrorist. That's not true. Within the Palestianian community and the Arab world and all kinds of other places, a Jew-Invader. And that's not true." My…
… struggle personally is for civil rights 1 Arab speaks inside Israel but in the other direction ... establishing a Palestinian state for Palestinians outside of Israel. My problem inside Israel is fighting…



