new edits explanations and justifications considering the controversy about the definition of druz as arabs we'd better of say arab and arabic speaking people that are not jewish the druz may or may not be arabs but they definitely speak arabic some of the palestinian arabs who became israeli citizens in were refugees who managed to return to their homes before the borders closed by the way i wonder if we should write palestinian and bedouin arabs as the bedouins often distinguish themselves from the palestinians occupied east jerusalem let us do without the complicated discussion about the legal status of jerusalem saying that east jerusalem was unilaterlly annexed is quite enough in terms of supplying required information it is improtant to emphasize the special status of the druze it is important to emphasize the special status of jerusalemite arabs the regard of israeli arabs as an indiginous minority is a theory or a claim it is not a fact it is very hard to determine which of the arabs in mandatory palestine is an immigrant from other parts of the middle east or a descendant of such an immigrant and which of them is actually indigenous this way or another the conflict between israel and its arab citizens cannot be said to be the mere result of a universal phenomenon of tension between indigenous people and newly established authorities the main cause of tension is the israeli arab conflict