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When he wrote those lines several years ago, Arab Poet Tawfiq Zayad could scarcely have imagined how sharp a thorn he would become to the Israelis. In a stunning election victory last week, Zayad, 46, a lifelong Communist agitator, became the new mayor of Nazareth, which is not only the town where Jesus spent his youth but also the largest (pop. 40,000) all-Arab city in Israel. Zayad polled an overwhelming 67% of the vote, while members of his broad Democratic Front coalition won eleven of the 17 seats on the city council...
...country were worried. The Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv called the vote "the most extreme expression of opposition to Israel." The Nazarenes viewed the election somewhat less extravagantly. Although Zayad's political record includes a dozen arrests for antigovernment activity, he was backed by most of Nazareth's leading doctors, lawyers and businessmen...
...Nazareth's population has doubled in the past 25 years, and the city is without factories, traffic signals, sidewalks, theaters and libraries. Cement purchased for paving streets has at times been used to build private homes. Last year state officials investigated corruption, and the mayor and the entire city council resigned...
While their own city has been falling apart, many Nazarenes have nervously watched the growth of nearby Upper Nazareth, an all-Jewish city (current pop. 20,000) that was begun by the Israeli government in the mid-1950s. Today it has several factories, neatly paved sidewalks and streets and attractive houses and apartments...
...True Trial of Jesus, Isorni set out to prove the innocence of the Jewish people. Isorni's thesis is similar to that of Jewish Historian Haim Cohn, author of The Trial and Death of Jesus, and Anglican Scholar S.G.F. Brandon, who wrote The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth. They argue that Jesus was condemned to die not because a Jewish tribunal objected to his calling himself the son of God, but because he had rebelled against the Roman occupation. In an emotional courtroom oration, Isorni claimed that if the court did not find De Nantes guilty of libel...