Democratic Palestine : 37 (ص 17)
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situation is different vis-a-vis its internal security. Participation
in the intifada by Palestinians living in the Zionist state has
mainly been in the form of support to the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. Despite this, or maybe because of it, the activities of
Palestinians living in Israel have been regarded with the utmost
suspicion by the Israel authorities.
According to the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem (1985), only
10 to 20 Palestinians in Israel have acted against the state or its.
security each year since 1948. Yet, after the December 21, 1987
general strike, the first all-Palestine action since the 1936- 39
revolt, Likud MK Kaufman proposed reimposing military rule
on them. There was a similar general strike on March 30, 1988,
but more disturbing was the fact that in the 1988 elections,
Zionist parties received the lowest ever percentage of the Pales-
tinian Arab vote. Al Hamishmar, June 2, 1989, quoted an MK’s
figures that «Israeli Arabs» were involved in over 1,000
nationalistically motivated «attacks» since December 1987 (a
figure that may include throwing stones and raising the Palesti-
nian flag). Most damaging were the acts of arson which, in view
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of the arrests made, seem to be regarded by the Israeli
authorities as cooperation linking Palestinians from the 1967
occupied territories with those of the 1948 occupied land. In
1988, 38,000 acres of Israeli-confiscated land were burned (as
opposed to 3,000 acres in 1986). This method of struggle has
continued with 20,000 acres burned in the nine months of 1989.
In 1988, the Israeli police formed a special unit to «handle
riots in the Arab sector «(Al Fajr, July 24, 1989). On May 3,
1989, the cabinet held a special debate on «the condition of
Arabs in Israel and the impact of the intifada on them «(Al Fajr,
May 8, 1989), as scores were being arrested in the Galilee and
Triangle for having expressed support to the intifada via leaf-
lets, fundraising or demonstrations. At the meeting, Yitzhak
Modai, minister without portfolio, said he didn’t see a «separa-
tion between the Arabs in Israel and the Arabs in the ter-
ritories,» remarking that the police cannot enter some Arab vil-
lages (in Israel). Alsoin May 1989, the Knesset gave preliminary
approval to a new «anti-terrorist» law making it an offense to
receive material donations from «terror organizations» and >»
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