Haifa U survey: Arabs 'resigned' to living in Jewish state
Most 'Israeli Arabs' are 'resigned' to living in Israel, but the truth is that they would not want to live anyplace else. Some 80% of Arabs living in Israel blame Jews for the Nakba, but 60% of them are resigned to Israel as a state with a Jewish majority, the Index of Arab-Jewish Relations for 2011, conducted by Prof. Sami Samuha of the University of Haifa shows.Read the whole thing. If they don't like it here, they are free to leave. We're not the former Soviet Union or Iran or Syria.
The full results of the survey, which Samuha has run annually for the last 30 years, are due to be announced at a university conference on Thursday.
Despite the fact that most of the respondents accepted Israel as a majority Jewish state, 63% of Arabs polled believe that it was not fair. Seventy-three percent of Arab respondents said they believe that the government treated Arabs as second-class citizens undeserving of equality.
Moreover, 68.3% of Arabs polled said they preferred to live in Israel than in other countries. Slightly more than half (56.5%) accepted Israel as a Hebrew-speaking state, and 58% accepted Shabbat as the day of rest.
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"In Israel there are a lot of benefits and a modern way of life, as well as economic and political stability. You can't compare the lives of Arabs in the Galilee to that of Arabs in Palestine, Lebanon, or Egypt. There is also the element that in Israel there is no concern of an Islamist takeover."
Samuha pointed to responses that showed that 71% of Israel Arabs felt that Israel was a good place to live, while 60% said they felt it was a home and a homeland.
Samuha said that the results of the survey over time show that intelligence and common sense prevail over extremist positions, and added that the long-term results showed pragmatism and acceptance alongside political polarization.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:36 PM
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Hebrew is the core of what we have; really, at the end of the day, it is all we have that makes us a people. Religion is cute; the State was built in spite of religious feelings, not because of it. I vote to amend the Law of Return to favor ONLY Hebrew-speakers of any religion as automatic citizens. Better we should get ten thousand more filipinit kids than even one clown who thinks that Menachem Schneerson is the Moshiach. And the rabbinate better be careful.... the day will come when their money-scam-rackets and marriage/divorce tyranny will be answered with Long Knives. In the presence of a State.... they are truly disposable.
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