NO '['UK Q I KSTIOV UK PAI.K.STINE 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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