Araber i Israel

När man talar om de israeliska araberna tänker man sällan på att de kommer från så olika bakgrund och lever i så olika förhållanden. T.ex. araberna i städerna ser ofta beduinerna som primitiva medan beduinerna ser sig själva som de äkta araberna.
Flera olika religioner finns också representerade inom den arabiska sektorn, muslimer, kristna, druser, alawiter osv.
Mordechai Kedar har skrivit en artikel om olikheterna i det arabiska samhället i Israel.
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The Arabs in Israel (Jerusalem Post)
 "There is almost no Arab community that has lived in its homeland for dozens of years in a truly democratic state.
The topic of the Arab sector in Israel is politically charged and represents contradicting narratives – one Jewish, the other Arab. Just as there are differences of opinion within the Jewish sector, there are variances in the Arab sector, and attitudes toward the Jewish sector, the state and its institutions can often even represent polar opposites.

To start with, there is no such thing in Israel as one “Arab sector”; rather, there are several Middle Eastern populations, some of which are not Arab, and they differ from one another in religion, culture, ethnic origin and historical background. Parenthetically, it is debatable whether there is one cohesive Jewish sector in Israel. Therefore, when we use the terms “the Arab sector” and “the Jewish sector,” it will be only for the sake of simplicity..."