ZIONISM FROM THE STANDPOINT OK ITS VICTIMS 107 are given a suitably cosmetic picture.5’ Meanwhile, of course, Israeli settlements on occupied territories multiply (over ninety of them since 1967); the logic o f colonization after 1967 follows the same pattern, resulting in the same displacements of Arabs as before 1948.” There are Zionism and Israel for Jews, and Zionism and Israel for non-Jews. Zionism has drawn a sharp line between Jew and non-Jew; Israel built a whole system for keeping them apart, including the much admired (but completely apartheid) kibbutzim, to which no A ra b has ever belonged. In effect, the Arabs are ruled by a separate government premised on the impossibility of isonomic rule for both Jews and non-Jews. Out o f this radical notion it became natural for the Arab Gulag Archipelago to develop its own life, to create its own precision, its own detail. Uri Avneri put it this way to the Knesset: A complete government . . . was created in the Arab sector, a secret government, unsanctioned by law . . . whose members and methods are not known . . . to anyone. Its agents are scattered among the ministries of government, from the Israel Lands Administration to the ministry of education and the ministry of religions. It makes fateful decisions affecting [Arab] lives in unknown places without documents and communicates them in secret conversations or over the telephone. This is the way decisions are made about who goes to the teachers* seminar, or who w i l l obtain a tractor, or who will be appointed to a government post, or who w i l l receive financial subsidies, or who w i l l be elected to the Knesset, or who will be elected to the local council— if there is one— and so on for a thousand and one reasons.51 But from time to time there have been inadvertent insights into government for Arabs in Israel given to watchful observ­ ers. The most unguarded example was a secret report by Israel Koenig, northern district (Galilee) commissioner of the minis­ try, written for the then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on “ handling the Arabs in Israel."’ (The full text was subsequently leaked to Al-Hamishmar on September 7, 1976.) Its contents make chilling reading, but they fulfill the assumptions of