The division of the working class in Israel, according to nationality, is supplemented by an important division between the Jewish wage-labourers. The bulk of the Jewish working class, especially in non-managerial positions, whether skilled or not, consists of Jewish Mizrahim. Their exploitation and discrimination in the economic sphere was accompanied by racist and systematic cultural oppression by the Ashkenazi-European settler elite. Thus, the overlapping of race and class among the Jewish working class has reduced the development of a strong class consciousness, mainly through the prevailing discourse which expresses the Mizrahim oppression in the terms and politics of cultural-identity. In Israel, the executive business class are mostly Ashkenazi Jews Those who lose the most, in declining order, are the Palestinian labourers from the 1967 occupied territories, the Palestinian minority from inside Israel, and the Mizrahi Jews who have remained since their arrival, trapped in the geographic and economic periphery.
Israeli society is characterised by a high consensus around Zionism.
Nationalists and racists saw themselves as revolutionaries and humanists, settled on the stolen lands of Palestinians, and sang the Internationale. The Zionist left, still continues to view Zionism as a national liberation movement and totally rejects its colonialist nature. The Palestinian left The Palestinian Left is now paying for its terrible mistakes. Arafat sabotaged the Palestinian Intifada, and took all measures necessary to re-establish his hegemony over the national movement in Palestine, which had liberated itself from him during the first months of the popular uprising. The struggle, in all of its various forms, had the potential to prevent the Oslo agreements.