A son of Ariel Sharon--not Omri, the one who's waiting to go to jail after his father dies, but Gilad--has written a brave piece in Thursday's Ha'aretz. In it he presents the demographic problem Israel faces. And it is not just a question of numbers. It is a question of loyalty...or, rather, disloyalty, the disloyalty to the State of Israel of the Israeli Arabs. It is called "Let Taibeh go to Palestine." Uzi Arad, a strategy academic at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlia, wrote a longish piece for us about why (and how) Israel should cede much of the territory on which its Arabs now live to the Palestinian Authority. The land and its people. These Arabs do not want to be Israelis. Let them, then, be Palestinians, bringing with them their pensions, other social benefits and also the habits of an open society that some of them may have learned. Sharon rightly calls this, "a change of citizenship without a change of residence...The inhabitants will live securely in their hones and will not lose a single dunam of land." He points out that the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan for Palestine envisioned a "Jewish State" and an "Arab State," not, by the way, a Palestinian state. (No one thought in those terms then, no one.) Such a ceding of territory with its people would add to Palestine an economically and educationally advanced populace, with fertile land and factories, too. These people do not want to be Israelis. Then, they'll have to be Palestinians, bringing their homes and land with them. Let them live under the Palestinian flag. Maybe they'll even help Palestine become a more democratic society.