The 1.5 million Arabs who find themselves within Israel
are the lucky ones.
They know how good they have it,
and have no wish to join the corrupt and oppressive Palestinian Authority
or, even worse, the Taliban rule of Hamas.
Israeli Arabs Have Highest Life Expectancy in Arab-Muslim World.
From here.
Arabs move to get on Israel side of barrier, Khaled Abu Toameh, May 14, 2007
- "In the past four years, thousands of Arab Jerusalemites
living outside the municipal boundaries of the city
have moved back into Jerusalem for fear of being left on the other side of the security fence.""People see the anarchy and instability in the Palestinian Authority areas
and prefer to leave to a safer place", explained an Arab businessman from Beit Hanina.
"Also, people are afraid of losing their status as permanent residents of Israel
and that's why they are moving back into Jerusalem.
After all, life inside Israel is much better than the West Bank."
Israeli Arab Muslims on pilgrimage to Mecca
actually defend Israel against the hostility of the Muslims they meet.
"Jum'a also encounters anti-Israel views. He holds the Arab media partially to blame for this, for failing to provide an accurate and comprehensive picture of Israeli culture and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
'The Arab media always shows negative things about Israel and as a Muslim Arab living inside Israel I want to show a positive side of the country. I tell them there are good things in Israel and that we live side by side with the Jews. There are problems sometimes but the relations with our Jewish neighbors are generally good.'
...
The Muslims in Israel have freedom and passports, he tells them. They have a good economic situation and good jobs; they get along with their Jewish neighbors and they benefit from Israel's services.
...
Sheikh 'Ali Bakr, 47, an imam from northern Israel
... says: 'Some think that Israeli Arabs are neglected and underprivileged, so we tell them that's not the case, that we live here as equal citizens and that we fit well into the Jewish social fabric.'"
Some Arab Israelis are in fact conservative, hawkish, very pro-Israel and right-wing.
Someone like Druze Israeli politician
Ayoob Kara,
for example,
does not seem to fit into the simplistic world view of the average leftie anti-Israel westerner.
An Arab member of Likud.
An Arab Minister of Communications of Israel.
Some Palestinians prefer life in Israel: In East Jerusalem, residents say they would fight a handover to Abbas regime, Mark Mackinnon, October 16, 2007
- Arabs in Jerusalem horrified at the thought they might be forced out of Israel
and into the corrupt, oppressive Palestinian Authority.
"If there was a referendum here, no one would vote to join the Palestinian Authority.
...
They dislike the idea of their neighbourhoods, which are generally more prosperous than other parts of the West Bank, being absorbed into the chaotic Palestinian territories.
...
Mr. Gheit said that over the past five years, some 5,000 people have moved into Ras Hamis from other parts of the West Bank, concerned that they would lose their Israeli identification cards if they didn't live within the city limits. There would be a mass exodus into other parts of the city, or other towns in Israel, if it looked likely that Ras Hamis and Shuafat, home to a combined 50,000 people, were about to be declared no longer part of Jerusalem."
Similar quotes from Arabs of Jerusalem in 2000:
"The whole world seems to be talking about the future of the Arabs of Jerusalem, but no one has bothered asking us. The international community and the Israeli Left seem to take it for granted that we want to live under Mr. Arafat's control. We don't. Most of us despise Mr. Arafat and the cronies around him, and we want to stay in Israel. At least here I can speak my mind freely without being dumped in prison, as well as having a chance to earn an honest day's wage."
Similar quotes from Arabs of Galilee in 2004:
"Yasir Arafat runs a dictatorship, not a democracy. No one here would accept to live under that regime."
And another:
"Here you can say whatever you like and do whatever you want - so long as you don't touch the security of Israel. Over there, if you talk about Arafat, they can arrest you and beat you up."
Consider this:
How many Arabs and Muslims move every year from Israel to the Palestinian territory?
What's stopping them?
Why does almost nobody move in that direction?
Why is almost all the movement the other way?
As always - as with Florida and Cuba,
as with East and West Germany,
as with Europe and the Islamic world -
people vote with their feet.
Their actions are far more eloquent than their words.
Arabs are 16 percent of undergrads
in Israeli universities.
(Arabs are 20 percent of population.)
Grown strongly in recent years.
From
2018 article.
And another
2018 article.
In 2013,
the Israeli public voted for an Israeli Arab Christian,
Lina Makoul,
as winner of
"The Voice".
Better proof that Israel is not a racist state you could not get.
Anti-Israel fanatic Max Blumenthal, 23 Mar 2013, responded by sneering:
"Tokenism works!"
As Elder of Ziyon
says:
"Think about that for a second. Blumenthal is utterly convinced that the Israeli Jewish public is deeply racist against Arabs. Yet when they vote for a singing competition, they have no compunction voting for an Arab that they supposedly hate.
Blumenthal's explanation? That, while safely anonymous in their homes, the Israeli public decided en masse to vote for the Arab singer, not because she was the most talented but because they wanted a token Arab to win, so that people like him wouldn't consider them racist!"
2000 survey:
"A survey of residents of
Umm el-Fahm ..
in the summer of 2000 asked whether they would like to include their city
in a potential Palestinian state.
The question elicited resounding opposition from 83% of respondents.
Among those opposed, 54% cited as explanation for their position the desire
to continue living under democratic rule,
and the fact that they enjoy a good standard of living."
Sept 2011 poll:
39 percent of Arabs in Jerusalem prefer Israeli citizenship
to Palestinian citizenship.
42 percent say they would try to move to Israel
if their neighbourhood became part of a Palestinian state.
Israeli Arabs increasingly identify with Israel, poll, May 2014.
43 percent favour an Israeli-Arab identity over a Palestinian identity.
64 percent think Israel is a good place to live.
There are negative things in the survey also.
Poll, Jan 2015.
65% of Israeli Arabs described themselves as proud to be Israeli.
2019 poll:
65% of Arabs are "proud to be Israeli".
Poll, Apr 2020:
Only 7% of Israeli Arabs define themselves as 'Palestinian'.
Poll, Dec 2021:
93 percent of East Jerusalem Arabs want to live under Israeli rule not PA rule.
An incredible result.
Poll, Nov 2023,
after the Hamas massacre.
70% of Arabs in Israel openly identify with the state, a big rise.
The Hamas massacre made Israeli Arabs more pro-Israel.
Israel's Arab neighbours hate the Jews.
The only Arabs who like the Jews are the 1.5 million Israeli Arabs who live with them.
From Pew Research Center
2009 poll.
And here.
A nation comes together:
The 2023 Hamas massacre
made Israeli Arabs feel more Israeli.
From thread.
The radical
Israeli-Arab politician
Haneen Zoabi
comes to Ireland, Aug 2012, to pander to Irish prejudices against Israel.
But surely her very existence - as an Israeli Arab who hates Israel
being allowed sit in the Knesset
- proves the lie to these assertions of a racist, apartheid state?
Israeli Embassy, 10 Aug 2012, gives a quick course in why Israel is not a racist state:
"The fact is that Ms Zoabi is
a living refutation of her own allegations
of denial of equal rights to Arab Israelis. One of her uncles was a
supreme court judge,
a second uncle served as
deputy minister of health
and mayor of Nazareth
while another relative was also mayor of Nazareth.
Arab citizens serve proudly at all levels of Israeli society:
an Arab has been acting president,
an Arab supreme court judge
has helped to convict a former Jewish president
on rape charges."
They point out that not all Israeli Arabs are like Haneen Zoabi:
"more Arabs vote for the Labour, Likud or Kadima parties than for Ms Zoabi's small party."
There are ongoing attempts in Israel to
ban her from re-election.
These may or may not be justified.
But they are obviously related to her anti-Israel activities,
not her ethnicity.
If they were to do with her ethnicity, then
how did she get elected in the first place?
The Zoabi family aren't all bad:
Haneen Zoabi's cousin
Mohammad Zoabi
is a brave Arab secular Muslim supporter of Israel.
His hate-filled relative
Haneen Zoabi
said:
"I am happy to see that Israeli hasbara [public diplomacy] is in such a dire state that it needs a stupid boy with a twisted identity who feels a continuous need to apologize to his strong masters".
Mohammad has received
death threats
for speaking out for Israel, including from some relatives.
Israeli Arab
Rania Fadel
explains why she loves Israel, the country where she can be free.
The Arab population of Israel keeps increasing.
Because what Arab would want to live in the PA if they could live in Israel?
People vote with their feet.
The Christian and Muslim populations of Israel keep growing.
Because it is a diverse, secular state that everyone is free in.
From here.
The ethnic cleansing of the Arab Muslims of Israel.
The world's slowest ethnic cleansing.
From 330,000 in 1970
to 1.6 million in 2019.
From here.
Nobody could possibly answer this, could they?
Yes, they could.
The ethnic cleansing of the Arabs of Jerusalem
The ethnic cleansing of the Arab Muslims of Jerusalem.
From 121,000 in 1987
to 320,000 in 2016.
From here.
Despite decades of Israeli "occupation", "land grab" and "slow genocide",
the Arab population of Jerusalem grows steadily.
The Jews must be really crap at this stuff!
From CAMERA.
