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34 which is also very refreshing. On still another occasion they have an excellent series of classics - Beethoven and Schubert.¹

Now it matters not at all to the West how thoroughly westernized these Palestinians are - for they cannot change the fact that they are still Arabs and therefore classified as non-Europeans and thus, despite their uncritical adoration of Western culture, despised as outcasts. What benefits have these Palestinians derived from westernization? The very culture they have adopted is directly responsible for their arbitrary deprivation of all political rights, their homeland, their loss of nationality, their homelessness, rootlessness and exile and the justification it provides the alien Jewish immigrants to continue living on their stolen property. In these respects, the Christian Palestinians have fared no better than the Muslims and the affluent urban intelligentsia have been just as thoroughly and efficiently dispossessed by the Israelis as the most illiterate fellahin and beduin.