ZIONISM FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ITS VICTIMS
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ing” the restless nationalist leaders, whose main sin seems to
be that they encourage other natives to chafe at their enforced
inferiority, the government should form “ a special team . . .
to examine the personal habits of . , . leaders and other
negative people and this information should be made available
to the electorate.”
Not content then with “ diluting” and manipulating the Arab
citizens of Israel, Koenig goes on to suggest ways for economi
cally “ neutralizing” and “ encumbering" them. Very little of
this can be effective, however, unless there were some method
of somehow checkmating the “ large population of frustrated
intelligentsia forced by a mental need to seek relief. Expres
sions of this are directed against the Israeli establishment of the
state.” Koenig appeared to think it natural enough for Arabs
to be kept frustrated, for in reading his suggestions there is
little to remind one that Arabs are people, or that his report
was written not about Jews by a Nazi during World War II, but
in 1976 by a Jew about his A ra b co-citizens. The master stroke
of Koenig's plan comes when he discusses the social engineer
ing required to use the A r a b ’s backward "Levantine charac
ter" against itself. Since Arabs in Israel are a disadvantaged
community, this reality must be enhanced as follows:
a) The reception criteria for Arab university students should
be the same as for Jewish students and this must also apply to
the granting of scholarships.
A meticulous implementation of these rules will produce a
natural selection [the Darwinian terminology speaks eloquent
ly for itself] and will considerably reduce the number of Arab
students. Accordingly, the number of low-standard graduates
will also decrease, a fact that will facilitate their absorption in
work after studies [the plan here is to make certain that young
Arabs would easily be assimilated into menial jobs, thus
ensuring their intellectual emasculation],
b)
Encourage the channeling of students into technical
professions, the physical and natural sciences. These studies
leave less time for dabbling in nationalism and the dropout
rate is higher. [Koenig's ideas about the incompatibility
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