Who victimizes the Palestinian Arabs?

Question

1,300,000 arabs who are Israeli citizens live and work in Israel. They worship freely in their mosques. They enjoy full civil rights, study at Israeli universities, serve in the Knesset, in probably, every department of the Israeli Government and even some are in the armed forces. Meanwhile, the 4,000,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and in refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are largely victims of their own making. Are they not?

Answer 1

I think the leaders do them no good, but the propaganda keeps them occupied.  Their media helps feed the victacrat mentality.

Answer 2

They are vicitimized by the "Israelis"

Look, the "zionists" occupied their land so the ones who live in the occupied territories are victimized by the Israelis

Look, the "zionists" kicked them from their land so they made around 4 million palestinian refugees.

Look, the "zionists" gave the palestinians "israeli" citizenships but they consider them SECOND CLASS CITIZENS and are DISCRIMINATING against them:

here is what you need to read:

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/israel2/...

http://www.washington-report.org/backiss...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/8353...

www.law.nyu.edu/journals/jilp/issues/3...

The Palestinians are in fact victims of the Arabs but before being victims of Arabs, they are victims of those who made them refugees, forced them out of their homes, and forced them to live under the control of other nations.

Ms. Miche

what did the Palestinian Arabs become (what are they called) after 1948, would you please educate me?

The whole world knows us as Palestinians and now you are claiming that we are called something different, can you tell me what I am called?

Answer 3

The Israeli Arabs are the ones who were loyal to Israel.  The "palestinians" are the ones who sided with the enemy. So now they are paying for it by being treated like garbage by there Muslim brothers who use them as political pawns,

Answer 4

Palestinians are victimized by the Zionist colonial policies like any native people in other former colonies.

Israel is the last colonial rule in the world and your question ignores that living fact clearly.

Israel is a colonial democracy:

No real written democratic constitution.

Colonial organizations rule the land laws " Karan Kiamet " where they service only the Zionist colonist.

The colonist up to this day colonize new land in the West Bank

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This is the real Israel. Sorry, Yours dose not exist.

Answer 5

lol, that is so true

i just wanted to add the following, Israel is one of the most open societies in the world. Out of a population of 6.7 million, about 1.3 million — 20 percent of the population — are non-Jews (approximately 1.1 million Muslims, 130,000 Christians and 100,000 Druze).1

Arabs in Israel have equal voting rights; in fact, it is one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab women may vote. Arabs currently hold 8 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. Israeli Arabs have also held various government posts, including one who served as Israel's ambassador to Finland and the current deputy mayor of Tel Aviv. Oscar Abu Razaq was appointed Director General of the Ministry of Interior, the first Arab citizen to become chief executive of a key government ministry. Ariel Sharon's original cabinet included the first Arab minister, Salah Tarif, a Druze who served as a minister without portfolio. An Arab is also a Supreme Court justice.

Arabic, like Hebrew, is an official language in Israel. More than 300,000 Arab children attend Israeli schools. At the time of Israel's founding, there was one Arab high school in the country. Today, there are hundreds of Arab schools.2

In 2002, the Israeli Supreme Court also ruled that the government cannot allocate land based on religion or ethnicity, and may not prevent Arab citizens from living wherever they choose.2a

The sole legal distinction between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is that the latter are not required to serve in the Israeli army. This is to spare Arab citizens the need to take up arms against their brethren. Nevertheless, Bedouins have served in paratroop units and other Arabs have volunteered for military duty. Compulsory military service is applied to the Druze and Circassian communities at their own request.

Some economic and social gaps between Israeli Jews and Arabs result from the latter not serving in the military. Veterans qualify for many benefits not available to non-veterans. Moreover, the army aids in the socialization process.

On the other hand, Arabs do have an advantage in obtaining some jobs during the years Israelis are in the military. In addition, industries like construction and trucking have come to be dominated by Israeli Arabs.

Although Israeli Arabs have occasionally been involved in terrorist activities, they have generally behaved as loyal citizens. During the 1967, 1973 and 1982 wars, none engaged in any acts of sabotage or disloyalty. Sometimes, in fact, Arabs volunteered to take over civilian functions for reservists. During the outbreak of violence in the territories that began in September 2000, Israeli Arabs for the first time engaged in widespread protests with some violence.

The United States has been independent for almost 230 years and still has not integrated all of its diverse communities. Even today, 60 years after civil rights legislation was adopted, discrimination has not been eradicated. It should not be surprising that Israel has not solved all of its social problems in only 60 years.

Answer 6

I agree, they victimize themselves. It's a sort of disease they have identified with

Answer 7

It suits the needs of muslims to make the palestinians into victims. It gives them the opportunity they want to criticise the jews and israel and indirectly the US.

Many pakistanis living in Britain claim affinity to these arab muslims. Odd as I have not heard any arab muslims say anything good about pakistanis. I think this romance is one sided.

Answer 8

The Arab world victimizes them.

The king of Jordan said in his memoirs, that the greatest tragedy of the Palestinian people was that the Arab world led them to believe that they were cared about.

Answer 9

No,

They were forced out of their homes and villages or were threatened to be killed if they do not leave and had to find refuge somewhere else. They are dreaming to return back to their homes. Many of them still keep their home keys till today

Answer 10

They are victims of their own device.  They are like that ghostbusters movie when they "picked their own poison."  Their devious scheme backfired on them.

Even back in 1977, PLO admits 'Palestinian people does not exist'

In an interview with the Dutch newspaper "Dagblad de Verdieping Trouw", March 31, 1977, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein stated:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel.

‘Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people. Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa - while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem.’

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