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N.Y.C. 10003 (213)533-9370 73 The view of the organized Zionists of Canada, as well as most Cana-1 | dian Jews, is that the Palestinian plea for national identity is an artifi-' j cial tactic intended to eliminate the state of Israel. The refugees have a jease as suffering Arabs but not as Palestinians, and their problems can eventually be solved by compensation, resettlement and partial | repatriation. That is why, they argue, the Palestine Liberation Orga­nization must, on no account, be recognized. It is a substitution of the burly Palestinian exile for the frail refugee, and that changes the terms of the argument. Thus the concept of Palestine as a separate national identity is a very recent mutation, arising among Arabs as a purely negative reac­tion to Zionism, after the Balfour Declaration in 1917 recognized the Jewish right to a national home in Palestine. Before the Jewish return, Palestine was a dying land, according to the Canadian Zionist-Syrkin argument. In 1883, Claude Reigner Conder in his book Heth and Moab called Palestine "a ruined land," and Mark Twain shocked American readers of his Innocents Abroad with the description of the Holy Land as "desolation." The transfor- 1 .nation came when the Jewish National Fund reclaimed much of the wasteland from absentee Arab landlords at fancy prices and at an 1 even greater expenditure of Jewish lives and labour. In 1891 only a dozen Arabs lived on the waste of Rehovot where the Weizmann Sci­­► entitle Institute now stands. When Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 the only ones displaced were the camels who paraded along the beach. 1 But what about the ^post-1948 Jewish resident of a former Arab house in Jaffa or Jerusalenj? Was not an Arab displaced thereby? If the i resident is an oriental Jew\says Syrkin, he may point to the house of which the Arabs despoileo. him when he fled from Iraq. If he is a 1 Western Jew, he stands ready through the government of Israel to discuss compensation for abandoned Arab property any time the Arabs want to negotiate a peace settlement. In sum, the argument runs,, there is no moral imperative behind i the Palestinian cause. When the Arabs fled in the war of 1948 and again in 1967, part of the speed was due to the panic of hostilities and i the assurance of return after Arab victory, "but it was undoubtedly abetted by the subconscious or conscious feeling that flight to a vil­lage on the West Bank or across the Jordan was no exile." People picked themselves up "as though they were going from the Bronx to Brooklyn not as though they were abandoning a homeland." Any dif­ferences between them and their new neighbours were due to local antagonisms not national alienation. Clearly, argue most Canadian Jews, the new Palestinian nationalism is a contrived political tactic , against Israel. The Palestinian refugees are not, as United Church leaders insist, a distinct people who have been separated by war from their national homeland. For many Canadian Jews the most reasonable solution to the Middle East impasse—the one that would do least violence to parties con'-' cerned—would be to set up an entity for Palestinian Arabs on the West Bank and East Bank of the Jordan River. That is where most ref­­ugees already live. It would also satisfy newborn Palestinian national­ism. Above all, it would mean that the Palestinian homeland was al- L ready in Arab hands and thatit would not have to be liberated. All these arguments leave open the question of how King Hus­sein, who rules the East Bank, will fit into the picture. Hegemony by a Hashemite monarch whose grandfather Abdullah was imposed on the area by Britain after World War I is not Palestinian independence. Certainly the PLO would not accept it. And that is the crux of the dif­ference between the Canadian Jewish and United Church approaches to a solution of the Palestinian problem. The former would bypass the PLO; the latter see the organization as the only political representa­tive the Palestinians have. Canadian Jews have another objection to the PLO. They point to the organization as a terrorist gang unfit to represent anybody. United Church leaders do not condemn PLO nihilism strongly enough, say the Jews. Only in the case of Maalot, where in May 1974 children were cold-bloodedly shot by members of a radical PLO affili­ate, did leaders in the United Church react with appropriate indigna­tion. But if the United Church denounced every terrorist attack against Israel, it would likewise be morally bound to decry every retaliatory I bombing of Lebanese villages by Israeli planes, a balance not always welcomed in the Jewish community. Such bombings have occurred since 1970, the year King Hussein had a showdown with the PLO, killing thousands of its members and demolishing its training centres from which PLO attacks were made across the eastern border into Israel. PLO groups then moved to southern Lebanon and established themselves in villages in an area the Israelis called Fatahland, which the Lebanese army, weaker and smaller than the forces of its unwel­come Palestinian guests, could not control. Israel attempted to check the terrorism through air raids on the Lebanese villages. Most of the casualties in the bombings were civilians, a fact United Church lead­ers felt they could not overlook. To most Canadian Jews there is no such thing as a moderate PLO element. I do not deceive myself either. I have met hundreds of Pales­­ttinians in the West Bank and Gaza, in Lebanon, Jordan and Canada. Not one among them loves Israel and would not be happy to see her PALESTINE 90 acre» of excellent develop­ment property. 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Some radical offshoots—like Habash's Popular Front, Hawatmeh's Popular Democratic Front and Jabril's General Com­mand—are uncompromising, ready to fight "a two-hundred-year war against Israel" after the fashion of the struggle between the Mus­lims and the Crusaders. Others have become reconciled to a smaller Palestinian state, arguing that sovereignty is more important than the size of the national territory, much as the Zionists had argued in the early 1940s. There are still other factions: those who are for a small state in the hope it will become federated with Israel and through a rapid birth­rate overcome the Jewish majority; and those who accept a small state as a springboard for military operations against Israel. Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, is ambivalent on the issue. He demands—as he did at the twelfth conference of the Palestinian Council in Cairo—Palestinian rule over areas to be evacuated by the Israeli army in the event of an agreement, yet refuses to relinquish his vision of "a whole Palestine." Arafat is ambitious to lead the new state and supports contradictory views in a bid to keep the loyalty of all factions within his organization. Arafat impressed me at a press conference in Beirut in 1974 as an inscrutable leader, careful not to tip his hand on theoretical Palestin­ian issues lest he alienate any of the PLO's diverse factions. Others, however, have found him positive in his approach to Middle East ac­commodation. Lord Caradon, British representative at the UN and author of the famed Security Council Resolution 242 on the Middle East, met him in 1975 and came away convinced that "in Yasser Ara­fat the Palestinians have a leader who would eagerly seize any oppor­tunity to make effective progress in their interests, that he would in­finitely prefer peaceful to violent advance, that he would react favourably to any genuinely helpful approach and that he would re­gard the restoration of occupied Arab territories and the establish­ment of an Arab state in Palestine as far more valuable than the per­petuation of violence." The PLO is not only made up of terrorists. These are the minor­ity, although admittedly the minority has stamped the entire organi­zation with its image. For thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere, the PLO represents a hope for peaceful co-existence with Israel. In 1974, at a seminar on the "Future of Palestine" in London, England, the London representative of the PLO, Said Hammami, outlined the "strategy of evolution and co-existence" that could re­place the PLO's armed struggle against "the Zionist state." As a sop to the extremists or because, like many Palestinians, he has not yet learned to separate argument from propaganda, Ham­mami spoke of Israel as "a settler-state" based on oppression, and of Zionism as "a racialist, reactionary, chauvinistic movement." This is the typical harshness of the dominant Arab voice and is hard to take for those Israeli Zionists who have devoted their lives to the struggle for equality and justice for Palestinian Arabs. Hammami said: "The possibility, even the likelihood, of occa­sional acts of violence by individuals ought not, I suggest, to discour­age us from trying to follow a non-violent, evolutionary Palestinian approach to a tolerable form of co-existence between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, following the establishment of a limited or partial peace settlement." Studies, Sabri Jiryis, Israeli affairs specialist in Beirut's PLO research centre, discussed possibilities for an Israeli-Palestinian peace arrange­ment to which he aspires, and stressed the importance of a political solution rather than reliance on violence. "I believe that the Palestin­ians will benefit from peace more than anyone else," he says. "I can­not see the Palestinian issue purely as one involving land. No doubt land is very important, but there are other issues which are impor­tant, too, especially the social, economic and cultural problems facing Palestinians as a result of their dispersal all over the world. I believe that if the Palestinians are granted a period of peace and stability they can make good use of it—to rebuild themselves like any other people, to have a normal social and economic life of their own. . . . The major gain from a political solution would be the realization of these objec­tives." And Majed Abou Sharar, PLO information officer, adds: "We have outgrown the politics of refusal. We have abandoned the abso­lutist, all or nothing approach we held for decades. Our policy of re­sistance rules out neither discussions with King Hussein, nor diplo­matic bargaining with the Israelis, nor peace talks in Geneva, nor the creation of a mini-state in the Palestinian area." Canadian Jews thus should not fall into the trap of branding the entire PLO as criminal and murderous. They are wont to say that FLAGG BROS. MOVERS­­LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE, LIC 8. IN­SURED MOVING & STORAGE. CALL (914) 668-9261, (212) 324-5466 ( 73) BOWLING ALLEY In a small S.E. Town. 8 Lanes. P.B.S. Setters. Am­ple parking, leagues filled. Small health food store included, fully stocked. Write to: Stan Carson P.0. Box 59 Campbellford, Ont. KOL 1L0 Or call: 705-653-288175 PLO leaders counsel terrorism; therefore they are as bad as the terror­ists. Admittedly, within the PLO there are hard-liners, but there are (also those who advocate flexibility ^nd reconciliaton with Israel. One senses this ambivalence in the speech of PLO representative Farouk iKadoumi before the UN Security Council in January 1976. On the one ihand, he described the "Palestinian tragedy" as the result of alleged Zionist crimes, paying the usual lip-service to PLO ideology. On the other, he called for the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state within the common homeland of Jews and Arabs. Israeli Arabist, Dr. Mattityahu Peled of Tel Aviv University, a reserve general in the Israeli army, regards this as a signal that the PLO, through its official [representative in the Security Council, has abandoned the paragraph l in the Palestinian Covenant which demands the creation of a secular, .democratic state in the entire land of Israel-Palestine (New Outlook, [Tel Aviv, April-May 1976). Palestinians like Hammami, Jiryis, Kadoumi and others have begun to opt for new channels of accommodation. From their stand­point, peace must inevitably mean the end of Zionism which, they believe, can subsist only on war, discrimination and oppression. Many Israelis, in and out of government, also believe in peace, not a peace secured by armaments but by the true value of Zionism, a na­tional renaissance based on economic progress, universal equality and social justice. There is room for a meeting of minds in such a con­text, and United Church members and Canadian Jews together could play a valuable role in defining it. The Palestinian problem has been complicated by many factors: ter­rorism, competition for the same piece of land, Arab indifference and Jewish inflexibility. The Observer could have made a greater contribu­tion to the acceptance of the Palestinian plight if it had rounded out the problem and presented it in depth instead of publishing one­sided sentimental pieces which made victims out of the Palestinians and villains out of the Israelis. The Observer lost an opportunity of educating both Jews and Christians on the crucial issue of the Middle East conflict—Palestinian homelessness—and in so doing not only impeded Christian-Jewish understanding, but precipitated an open quarrel. The Palestinian refugee is not just the product of war with Israel. He is the victim of a three-pronged onslaught—from Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians themselves. Few have explained this better than Fawaz Turki in his Journal of a Palestinian Exile. Growing up in Beirut as a stateless person, he was like a Jew in the Diaspora, "despised, persecuted or at best ignored," suffering the slings and arrows of his hosts: "Why don't you go back to where you came from, you Pales­tinian sons of whores who sold their land to the Jews!" Instead of reducing the problem to "good guys" and "bad guys" and emblazoning the word "Injustice" across the top of a page, leav­ing the impression that Israel was responsible for all the troubles of the refugees, the United Church Observer should have given Chris­tians and Jews the Turki picture—the outrage, shame, anger and hu­miliation that came to the Palestinians from several quarters, which can be eradicated only through the co-operative effort of Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. It could have advocated a Palestinian Zion­ism to complement Jewish Zionism Many Jews would have rejected such a plea; many would have accepted it; few would have resented it. The United Church-Jewish quarrel might have been avoided. Jewish obligation to the refugees is not lessened, of course, be­cause Israel is not alone in responsibility for their plight. It makes lit­tle difference who is responsible for their tragedy. It exists, and it is part of the burden of the Jewish people. As Christians have a unique relationship to Jews, so modern Jews have a special connection with the Palestinians.tGolda Meir used to say that there h^s never been a Palestinian national entity. The consequence of this argument is that since there is no such people, there is no responsibility to deal with it. But this non-existent people is very much like the Jews. Both came from the same racial strains; it is difficult to tell a Sephardic Jew from a Palestinian Arab. Both trace their antecedents to the land of Canaan. Both came to national political awareness at about the same time in history. Return to the homeland, or Zionism, is the creed of both. The responsibility of Canadian Jews to Israel should not be con­fined to unquestioning financial support of the Jewish state. Israel means little if she becomes a kind of church to which Jews give money in order to be redeemed. Redemption comes, says Jewish tra­dition, only through the righting of wrongs committed and the cor­rection of injustices done. Jews should recognize Palestinian rights not only for moral reasons but for the sake of Israel's own security. It is in Israel's interest to break out of the vicious cycle of terror, retaliation, more terror and more retaliation. Israel, for her own sake, must take the first step in reconciliation with the Palestinians. Many Israeli spokesmen insist that terrorism can be contained. It is a vain belief. 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