Democratic Palestine : 40 (ص 23)
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Palestinian refugees, Gaza, early fifties
few and do _ not
mainstream of Israeli society. But
according to the Applied Social
Research and Communications Insti-
tute of the Hebrew University
(ASRCI), «Forty-nine percent of
Israeli adults believe that the transfer
of Arabs from the [occupied] ter-
ritories would allow the democratic
and Jewish nature of Israeli society to
be maintained» (Jerusalem Post, Aug.
20, 1988). The ASRCI concluded that
the subject of transfer «has gained
legitimacy, and has become a focus of
public discusion» (Ibid).
Zeev Schiff and Ehud Ya’ari, two
of Israel’s foremost journalists,
reached a similar conclusion in their
new book Intifada: «The word transfer
has been in the air for quite awhile. At
first only fanatics like Kahane had
indulged in such talk, but in the mid-
1980’s the notion spread to other
respectable circles of Israeli society.»
The «respectable circles» Schiff and
Ya’ari refer to include: Raphael Eitan,
the former Chief of Staff of the Israeli
Defense Forces and current head of
the Tehiya Party; Michael Dekel, who
served as Deputy Minister of Defense
under Yitzhak Rabin and Rahavam
«Ghandi» Zeevi, head of the Moledet
Party.
represent the
Democratic Palestine, July-August 1990
With the anticipated arrival of one
million Soviet Jewish immigrants over
the next eighteen months, the issue of
«transfer» is more pertinent now than
ever. It raises the specter of a new war
which would be employed as a cover
for again expelling hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians. Former
Chief of Army Intelligence Aharon
Yariv estimates the number of Palesti-
nians who will be expelled during the
next war to be «between 700,000 to
800,000 (quoted by Abdul Jawad
Saleh, Israel’s Policy of De-
Institutionalization). Yariv adds that
«instruments have been prepared for
the contingency» implementation of
this mass expulsion plan. In addition,
such a war would, as many Israelis
believe, or at least hope, put an end to
the thirty-three-month old intifada,
which has caused the Jewish state
much embarrassment and international
isolation. The media coverage during
the past two and a half years has
shown the world what Israel has been
doing in the 1967 occupied territories
for the past 23 years.
The formation of the new extreme
right-wing government in Israel has
already set the stage for a third Pales-
tinian «transfer.» The first point of the
23-point plan that the government pre-
Who will go -
Us or Them?
still yours!
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MOLEDET!
a
Moledet party's election campaign poster, 1988
sented to the Knesset deals with
immigration and absorption. The drive
to settle the new immigrants in the
1967 occupied territories has already
been set in motion by none other than.
Ariel Sharon, the new minister of
housing who has himself taken sym-
bolic residence in these territories.
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