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When Jesus Christ learned recently that another Nazarene had died, he went and asked the newcomer to Heaven: "How are things in Nazareth?" "They are changing," replied the Nazarene. "There are new political leaders and new civic programs, and the citizens are full of hope." "I can see that nothing has changed," sighed Jesus. "And besides, " continued the Nazarene, "they are cleaning up the Cactus Quarter." "So Nazareth really is changing!"said Jesus...
...Rakah (Communist) Party, which has four members in the Knesset; two are Jews. Lately there has been talk among the Arabs about trying to focus voting strength to increase their membership in parliament to twelve?a powerful bloc in Israel's fragmented politics. Last December the voters of Nazareth (pop. 40,000), Israel's largest Arab city, elected Tawfiq Zayad, a Communist, as their mayor...
...Communist mayor of Nazareth, called for a one-day general strike in Galilee for last week. The government tried hard to prevent it; some Arabs charge that workers were threatened with loss of their jobs if they failed to show up for work. Jerusalem claimed that fewer than half the 107 Arab villages participated in the strike. But in at least a dozen communities, police and soldiers battled with angry Arabs; three of them were killed in Sakhnin and one each in Araba, Kfar Kanna and Tira...
...suggest, Tawfiq Zayad's recent election as mayor of Nazareth [Dec. 22] may encourage Israeli Arabs to try to exert political power on a national scale. However, I do not see this as a catastrophe for Israel. In fact, a successful bid for political power by Israel's Arab citizens may prove that Israel's political system works for all her citizens, and that her democratic ideals are honored...
Jerusalem has an understandable worry. The Nazareth election could encourage Israel's 400,000 Arab citizens (12% of the total population), who are now fragmented among several Jewish-led parties, to gather together in a single political organization and thus possibly exert real power at the polls for the first time. With this prospect in mind, some unhappy officials in Jerusalem are already pondering the question in St. John in the New Testament: "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth...