THE yLESTlON OF PALESTINE 53 ments in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Kuw ait, and Saudi Arabia: the regional majority is Sunni Islam, although each of these countries is governed either by a non-Sunni group or by a family and/or regional oligarchy not open to the population as a whole. A s a result, central state governments in the area are essentially repressive toward the m ajority people, and this is manifestly true not only in A rab states, but also in Israel. The minority cast o f mind, in association with an uncritical admira­ tion of the state for its own sake, has made the lot o f the individual citizen a precarious one. In Israel, for exam ple, the state is divided into Jews and non-Jews, and even more discrim inated into European and Oriental Jews. Elsewhere in the region, citizen's rights are dependent not on the guarantee o f law but on the discretion o f a jealously guarded central state power. Therefore, a move toward some equity in, as well as some solution for, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute would be to reconsider the problem between the two groups, to reform u­ late it as a dispute involving people who hope for the time when rights would be guaranteed for all the proper inhabitants (past and present) o f the territory. A t such a time, Israel could no longer be the state o f the whole Jewish people resident there or not, but the state o f its present Jew:ish and non-Arab citizens; the same would be true o f the other states in the region. But even so basic a step is practically impossible at this time. T he relations between Israelis and Palestinians are so inflamed as to make anything resembling equity and resolution out of the question. But only for the time being. The long-run goal is, I think, the same for every human being, that politically he or she may be allowed to live free from fear, insecurity, terror, and oppression, free also from the possibility o f exercising unequal or unjust domination over others. This long-run goal has different meanings for the Palestinian Arabs and for the Israeli Jews. For the latter, it means freedom from the awful historical pressure o f anti-Semitism whose culmination was Nazi genocide, freedom from fear of the A rabs, and freedom also from the blindness o f programmatic Zionism in its practice against the non-Jew. For the form er, the long-run goal is