I(U THE QUESTION OF HAt.ESTINE constitutes a cornerstone of the “ Judaization of the Galilee” policy. Upper Nazareth was erected upon the hills surround­ ing Nazareth as a security belt surrounding it almost on all sides. It was built upon thousands of acres of lands which were expropriated high-handedly, purely and simply by force, from the Arab settlements, particularly Nazareth and Rana. The very choice of the name “ upper” Nazareth, while the stress is upon upper, is an indicator of the attitude of the authorities, which give the new town special privileges according to their policy of discrimination and lack of attention regarding the city of Nazareth, which is, in their eyes, at the very bottom of the ladder. The visitor to Nazareth can acknowledge with his own eyes the neglect and lack of development of the city, and if from there he goes “ up" to upper Nazareth, he will sec over there the new buildings, the wide streets, the public lights, the steps, the many-storied buildings, the industrial and artisan enterprises, and he will be able to perceive the contrast: development up there and lack of care down there; constant government building up there, and no construction whatever down there. Since 1966 the [Israeli] Ministry of Housing has not built a single unit of habitation in old Nazareth. |Yoseph Elgazi in Zo Hadareh, July 30, 1975] The drama of a ruling minority is vividly enacted in Nazareth. With all its advantages, upper— that is, Jewish— Nazareth contains 16,000 residents; below it, the A ra b city has a population o f 45,000. Clearly the Jewish city benefits from the network o f resources for Jews. Non-Jews are surgically excluded. The rift between them and the Jews is intended by Zionism to signify a state of absolute difference between the two groups, not merely one of degree. If every Jew in Israel represents “ the whole Jewish people” — which is a population made up not only of the Jews in Israel, but also o f generations o f Jews who existed in the past (of whom the present Israelis are the remnant) and those who exist in the future, as well as those who live elsewhere— the non-Jew in Israel represents a permanent banishment from his as well as all other past, present, and future benefits in Palestine. The non-Jew lives a meager existence in villages without libraries, youth centers,