Arab citizens of Israel early in the twenty-first century
By: Arik Rudnitzky
Series: Memorandum -- no. 150
Publisher: Institute for National Security Studies
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tel Aviv
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9789657425824
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs; Social conditions; Government policy
Work titles: ʻAravim ezreḥe Yiśraʼel be-fetaḥ ha-meʼah ha-21
Description: "In recent years, Jewish majority-Arab minority relations in Israel have become an increasingly salient issue. Many have come to understand that the Jewish-Arab cleavage is more acute and grave than any other social rift in Israeli society. This study surveys the major political and social developments in Israel's Arab society that have had a formative influence on this minority's national discourse since the 1990s. Over the last three decades, Israel's Arab society experienced national and civic mobilization processes that left a strong imprint on its collective consciousness. In tandem, the Arab sector has produced diverse political and ideological streams that aspire to promote the interests of the country's Arab citizens -- each stream according to its worldview and corresponding political agenda. Today, all the streams openly demand the state's recognition not only of the Arabs' rights as Israeli citizens, but of their rights as part of a national Palestinian minority living in a Jewish nation state"--Publisher's web site.
Table of contents: title: Israel's Arab population : background data and information; title: Political and ideological transformations; title: Arab society : social and economic indicators; title: Government policy; title: Jewish-Arab relations in Israel; title: Conclusion and recommendations.