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...Jerusalem, denounced the Arab governments as "rotten regimes." On July 6, Israeli soldiers used bullets and tear gas to disperse a student demonstration at Bir Zeit University. Two days later, Israeli military authorities closed the university for three months. They also dismissed the mayor of Gaza, the patrician Rashad al Shawwa, 73, who thus became the sixth Arab mayor to be fired this year in the Israeli drive to curb Palestinian nationalism in the occupied territories...
...West Bank Arab mayors of Nablus and Ramallah. Argues Hikmat al-Masri, board chairman of Najah University in Nablus: "Under international law we should be protected by the Israelis. But they did not come to [Nablus Mayor] Bassam Shaka'a and ask him about the incident." Adds Rashad al-Shawwa, the mayor of Gaza: "We are against terror, but I am afraid that in the state of frustrations of the Palestinians, violence must be used...
...Rashad al-Shawwa is no radical: he has been the target of terrorist attacks because of his view that Gaza could not function without some kind of cooperation with the occupying Israelis. But at Bir Zeit University, just north of Ramallah in the West Bank, the students' anti-Israeli rhetoric would do credit to a warm-up rally for P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Says one 23-year-old student: "We believe in the slogan, 'What has been taken by force must be taken back by force.' Our struggle is part of the universal struggle against imperialism...
...tell the Israelis they don't realize how much we hate them, not because they are Jews but because of what they have done to us." So says Rashad al-Shawwa, 70, a moderate Palestinian by any measure, who has been mayor of Gaza since 1975. Because of his political adroitness, he has won the admiration of Israelis as well as Egyptians, Jordanians and P.L.O. moderates. Unlike some of the mayors on the West Bank, Shawwa has not condemned Sadat's peace initiative. "I don't think Sadat has sold out the Palestinians," he says...
Despite the anger and disillusionment, a number of Gaza's leaders are unmistakably moderate. Rashad al-Shawa, mayor of the town of Gaza (pop. 118,000) generally favors compliance with the Camp David accords, "but there must be some modifications." His most important demands: 1) participation by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the negotiations; 2) clarification of the status of the West Bank and Gaza following the five-year interim period; 3) assurances that the Israelis will dismantle their settlements and build no more...