THE y l ES I ]UN OE 1‘Al.ES ] t\E Zionism toward its victims, the non-Jews. Koenig frankly admits that Arabs present a demographic problem since unlike Jews, whose natural increase is i .5 percent annually, the Arabs increase at a yearly rate of 5.9 percent. Moreover, he assumes that it is national policy for the Arabs to be kept inferior, although they may be naturally susceptible to nationalist restlessness. The main thing, however, is how to make sure that in areas like Galilee the density of the Arab population, and consequently its potential for trouble, be reduced, con­ tained, weakened. Therefore, he suggested that it is necessary to expand and deepen Jewish settlement in areas where the contiguity of the Arab population is prominent, and where they number considerably more than the Jewish population; examine the possibility of diluting existing Arab population concentrations. Special attention must be paid 10 border areas in the country’s northwest and to the Nazareth region. The approach and exigency of performance have to deviate from the routine that has been adopted so far. Concurrently, the slate law has to be enforced so as to limit “ breaking of new ground" by Arab settlements in various areas of the country. The quasi-military strategy of these suggestions is very near the surface. What we must also remark is Koenig's unquestion­ ing view of the Zionist imperatives he is trying to implement. Nothing in his report intimates any qualms about the plainly racial end his suggestions promote; nor does he doubt that what he says is thoroughly consistent with the history of Zionist policy toward those non-Jews who have had the bad luck to be on Jewish territory, albeit in disquietingly large numbers. He goes on to argue— logically— that any A ra b leaders who appear to cause trouble should be replaced, that the govern­ ment should set about to "create" (the word has an almost theological tone very much in kefping with Jewish policy toward Arabs) ‘ ‘new [Arab] figures of high intellectual stan­ dard. figures who are equitable and charismatic," and com­ pletely acceptable to the Israeli rulers. Moreover, in "dissipat­