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Dateline Jerusalem
Israel Normalizing
Relations With Arabs
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By Eliahu Salpeter
In recent weeks, Israel made
three important moves to im
prove relations with the Arab
population in the occupied ter
ritories. It speeded up housing
and employment projects for
refugees in the Gaza Strip; it
offered compensation to East
Jerusalem Arabs for properties
they abandoned in Israel in
1948; and it abolished the need
for permits for Arabs from the
West Bank to visit Israel.
Of the three, the first is the
least spectacular and, at least
for the time being, the least rel
evant to the situation. Israeli
administration inherited from
the Egyptians some 250,000 ref
ugees in unbelievably over
crowded refugee camps whose
inhabitants had little opportun
ity to find work in the narrow
Strip based on agriculture and
citrus growing, with no industry
to speak of. In contrast to the
West Bank whose growing pros
perity defeated terrorist efforts
to stir unrest and hostility
against the Israelis, the Gaza
Strip, and in particular the
refugee camps, became a hotbed
of terrorism.
The Israelis encouraged refu
gees to move to the West Bank
and built more spacious housing
for thousands of them. The main
obstacle for speedier progress in
this field was not lack of funds
but the reluctance of the refu
gees to move—even a few miles
from their miserable camps—-
and the reluctance of the Israeli
authorities to move them by
force.
However, while better housing
more easily policed, would have
an immediate effect of cutting
down terrorism, in the long run,
employment is the best insur
ance against pro-terrorist senti
ment among the local popula
tion.
It is in this sphere that the
Israeli planners are now hard at
work. The problem is not easy,
with local capital in short sup
ply and unwilling to invest, and
Israeli capital hesitant to take
risks in setting up industries
which could give the jobs agri
culture is unable to provide.
Even if the difficulties are
overcome, it will take consider
able time before industrializa
tion can begin to have an effect
on the local scene.
Compensation to East Jeru
salemites is a different matter.
East Jerusalem having been
formally annexed to the capital,
its inhabitants—even if they do
not choose to take out Israel cit
izenship—are full-fledged per
manent residents of Israel.
Mayor Teddy Kollek has long
urged that they should be com
pensated for their former real
estate left behind in pre-1967
Israel. Like any other Israeli
citizen or resident, they are en
titled to compensation if the
government takes over their
properties. There was no ex
cessive enthusiasm in the gov
ernment for this idea, which
may cost the Treasury anywhere
between $100 million to $300
million.
But Mr. Kollek‘ felt that doing
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normalization of Israel-Arab re
lations in Jerusalem. Under his
constant prodding, and strong
support from Justice Minister
Yaacov Shapiro, the Cabinet last
month finally drafted a compen
sation bill, to be submitted to
the Knesset for approval in the
near future. Here too, however,
the desired effect will take some
time in coming.
The initial reaction of the
Arab property owner was mixed
and tended to be negative. In an
expression of nationalistic feel
ings more than of economic
self-interest, many of them de
clared that they would not ac
cept compensation unless it is
given to all Arabs for all prop
erties left in Israel. It is as
sumed, however, that after the
initial stand and when the de
tails and the rates of compensa
tion become known, practically
all will make a settlement.
The abolition of the required
permits for West Bank Arabs to
come and go to Israel proper is,
in a sense, more a symbolic
than a substantive change. Any
West Bank resident could easily
obtain a permit from the near
est Military Government office
if he wanted to go to Haifa or
Tel Aviv or any place else for
business, entertainment or sight
seeing. Now this formality has
been dropped, clearly implying
both the sense of security on the
part of Israel and the confi
dence in the peaceful behavior
and intentions of the West
Bank Arabs.
As if given a reminder that
they are welcome in Israel, West
Bank Arab residents by the
thousands now flock to the
beaches in Haifa, Natanya, Herz-
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