Faculty begins series on Middle East crisis
By JULIE THATCHER Kansan Staff Writer
The Faculty Forum began a three-part series Thursday on the crisis in the Middle East.
Fawwaz Ulaby, associate director of the center for research in engineering science, presented the Arab position. He told nearly 50 faculty members unless Zionism is dissolved the problem in the Middle East can never be resolved.
"There needs to be a secular, democratic state open to all, regardless of creed," he said. "What exists now is racial discrimination on a religious basis."
Ulaby told about the development of the Palestinian commando units. These resistance groups are not affiliated with any Arab government or outside force he said. He said, "They are fighting for one goal, Arab unity."
The commando movement began in the 1950's, Uliyad said, when Arabs began to doubt traditional military approaches.
"The Six Day War in June 1967 dramatically showed the failure. Today the commando point of view is that of a majority of youth and mine as well," he said.
Ulaby said the groups were not fighting Jews but the Zionist movement. "Arabs and Jews lived together successfully until the introduction of Zionism. Today," he said, "most of the people in Israel are captives of Zionism."
The treatment Arabs receive in Israel today is what is objectionable to the commando groups, Ulaby said.
Arabs must have permits to travel from town to town, he said. Those who leave Israel to further their education must promise never to come back. "They don't want educated Arabs returning to the country," he said.
In addition to this, Ulaby said, 20 per cent of the land Israelis have acquired since 1950 was taken from Arabs.
"Arabs were either forced to flee as a result of terrorist activities or their land was confiscated with absentee laws," he said.
Nearly 380 towns and villages were abandoned, Ulaby said, and the absentee laws are directed at only the Arabs. "If a man leaves the town because of fighting, he comes under the law's jurisdiction."
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Another objection is Arabs must prove they were in the country before 1948 or they are not allowed citizenship, Ulaby said. "Jews come from all over the world and are accepted immediately. It is our homeland but we are forced to prove it."
The historical basis of the conflict was also presented. Ulaby said when the British became involved in the Palestinian area after World War I, the Jews made up 9 per cent of the population and owned 2 per cent of the land. The British Mandate allowed increased population expansion, he said.
The top three photographers will receive $25, $15 and $10 prizes and all students who have pictures accepted for publication will receive a credit line.
Further information about the contest is available from Clark in the Alumni Association office or William Seymour, assistant professor of journalism.
In 1935 the first zionist conference was held. "From that time on the Zionists were determined to build an exclusively Jewish economy," he said.
The issue of partitioning was presented by the United Nations in 1947. The Jews were to receive 57 per cent of the land and control an area with an almost equal number of Arabs, Ulaby said. "The Jews had no reason to reject this plan, it was merely a foothold for them.
"The Israeli have gained control," he said, "when they had no right to the area on the basis of population or land holdings."
Ulaby emphasized Israel has always been the aggressor. "It is not actually an Arab/Israel conflict," he said, "but a Palestinian battle.
"Israel maintains there is aggression by an outside country to detract people from the real issue. Palestinians have been exiled since 1948.
"Golda Meir," he said, "said Palestine did not exist because there was never an independent Palestinian state. By what magical logic can anyone dismiss the existence of three million people?" Ulaby said.
At the luncheon next week, Zamir Bavel, associate professor of computer science, will present the Israeli viewpoint.
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