Summary
The secret 1976 report by Israel Koenig to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on handling the Arabs in Israel, leaked to Al-Hamishmar on September 7, 1976 and quoted at length in The Question of Palestine.
Details
- A secret report by Israel Koenig, northern district (Galilee) commissioner, written for then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on “handling the Arabs in Israel”; the full text was subsequently leaked to Al-Hamishmar on September 7, 1976 (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.128-129 / printed p.107-108).
- Its proposals, as quoted by Said, include expanding and deepening Jewish settlement in areas of prominent Arab contiguity, examining diluting Arab population concentrations, enforcing state law to limit Arab breaking of new ground, replacing Arab leaders who cause trouble, creating new acceptable Arab figures, and forming a special team to examine the personal habits of leaders and other negative people for the electorate (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.129-130 / printed p.108-109).
- On students, quoted at length: equal reception criteria and scholarships meticulously implemented to produce a natural selection reducing Arab students, channeling into technical professions, the physical and natural sciences, easier trips abroad for studies with return and employment made more difficult, tough measures against agitators, and absorption prepared in advance for the better part of graduates (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.130-131 / printed p.109-110).
- Said: Koenig’s suggestions seem universally justified by a logic pitting a small, valiant Western Jewish population against a vast, amorphous Arab population, and are consecrated by the institutions of the Jewish state (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.131 / printed p.110).