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israeli arabs
Israel’s Arabs want more industrial zones
Economic inequality persists in many areas
Poll: Only 20 percent of Jewish Israelis see Arab citizens as ‘equals’
More than one-third of Jewish Israelis see their Arab fellow citizens as “enemies,” and only 20 percent said they consider Arab-Israelis their “equals,” a new poll has found.
Lucy Aharish on Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Arabs make up 20 percent of Israel’s population– greater than either blacks or Latinos do of the American population.
Providing books to Jaffa preschoolers makes Israel stronger
The children at the Arabic-speaking Ofek preschool in Jaffa spent a lot of time this past year thinking about a mouse named Samsoum, the character in a picture book all the kids have read at home with help from their parents.
Israeli Arabs prove to be part of the problem, not part of the solution
The crux of the debate is what Israel\’s Arabs make of the very idea of a Jewish state in the ancestral land of the Jews. And our conclusion since the fall of 2000 has been — as the famously dovish TV journalist Amnon Abramowitz put it at the time — that while we pro-Oslo Israelis were devising two states for two peoples, our Arab counterparts, on both sides of the Green Line, were contemplating two states for one people: the Palestinians.
Benefits bolster the case for reciprocity
The past few months saw rising temperatures of accusations and counteraccusations among sections of the Jewish community. Leftist Jews criticized Israel,
professor Alvin Rosenfeld criticized anti-Zionist Jews, the American Jewish Committee (AJCommittee) published Rosenfeld\’s article, Rob Eshman criticized Rosenfeld (\”Shutting Jewish Mouths,\” Feb. 16) and Jewish Journal readers criticized Eshman (Letters, Feb. 23).