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between science and human values go C. P. Snow one better.
Surely this is a sinister instance of the use of science as political
punishment; it is new even to the history of colonialism.]
c) Make trips abroad for studies easier, while making the
return and employment more difficult— this policy is apt to
encourage their emigration.
d) Adopt tough measures at all levels against various
agitators among college and university students.
e) Prepare absorption possibilities in advance for the better
part of the graduates, according to their qualifications. This
policy can be implemented thanks to the time available (a
number of years) in which the authorities may plan their steps.
Were such ideas to have been formulated by Stalinists or
Orwellian socialists or even A ra b nationalists, (he liberal
outcry would be deafening. Koenig's suggestions, however,
seem universally justified by the logic of events pitting a small,
valiant Western population of Jews against a vast and amor
phous, metastasizing and ruinously mindless A ra b population.
Nothing in Koenig’s report conflicts with the basic dichotomy
in Zionism, that is, benevolence toward Jews and an essential
but paternalistic hostility toward Arabs, Moreover, Koenig
himself writes from the standpoint of an ideologist or theorist
as well as from a position of authority and power within Israeli
society. A s a ruler of Arabs in Israel, Koenig expresses both an
official attention to the well-being of Jews, whose interests he
maintains and protects, and a paternalistic, managerial domi
nance over inferior natives. His position is therefore consecrat
ed by the institutions of the Jewish state; licensed by them, he
thinks in terms of a maximum future for Jews and a minimal
one for non-Jews. All of these notions are perfectly delivered
in the following paragraph from his report:
Law enforcement in a country with a developing society like
that of Israel is a problem to be solved with flexibility, care and
much wisdom. At the same lime, however, the administrative
and executive authority in the Arab scctor must be aware of
the existence of the law and its enforcement so as to avoid
erosion.14
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