Why dont arabs like jews

In May, feelings of discrimination melded with a new round of conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, to erupt in violent inter-communal clashes. Mobs of Arab and Jewish extremists went on the rampage in Israel's mixed cities.

There were lynchings, properties were vandalised and religious sites desecrated. Some even warned of impending civil war. With a sense that Israel's inter-communal bonds are under threat, Maisam Jaljuli - the activist and friend of the late Suha Mansour - is calling on Jews and Arab citizens to unite to deal with the crime and killings.

It's the whole Israeli problem," she says. We all the time said that if you think that the violence and the murders will be only inside the Arab society, you are wrong: It soon will be also in the Jewish society. Why an Israeli mayor is warning of civil war. Image source, Quique Kierszenbaum.

Only a minority of killings among Israeli Arabs have been solved. Image source, Mansour family. No-one has been arrested over the murder of Suha Mansour. Breaking a stigma. It is a function of Middle Eastern culture that neither Israelis nor most Westerners fully understand or recognize.

One of the worst things to experience, in Arab eyes, is to be cheated, fooled, or taken advantage of. When someone attempts to cheat an Arab—and even more so, if that person succeeds—the Arab is overcome by furious anger, even if the person who did the cheating was his own cousin.

Regarding the Palestinian Arabs, the first point to make is that many of them are not originally Palestinians at all. They are immigrants who came to the Land of Israel from all over the Arab world during the British Mandate in order to find employment in the cities and on the farms the Jews had built. These immigrants still have names like Hourani from Houran in southern Syria , Tzurani from Tyre in southern Lebanon , Zrakawi from Mazraka in Jordan , Masri the Egyptian , Hijazi from the Hijaz province of the Arabian peninsula , Mughrabi from the Maghreb , and many other names that point to their true geographical origins.

Why, ask the other Arabs, should they get preferential treatment over those who remained in their original countries? Residents in the refugee camps do not pay municipal taxes. In Lebanon, several refugee camps were built near Beirut, but they were incorporated into the expanding city and then turned into high-class neighborhoods with imposing high-rise apartment buildings. Someone profited from this change, and it was not the man in the street. He has every reason to feel cheated.

These groups acted viciously toward the surrounding Lebanese citizens, and in brought on a civil war that lasted for 14 long years of bloodshed and destruction. Statements designed to reflect antisemitic attitudes were shown to nearly 1, Jewish people, and 1, Muslim respondents were shown statements designed to be Islamophobic:. There was more certainty within the Jewish group about whether the statements were antisemitic or not.

The Muslim group were less certain. In stark contrast, none of the statements about attitudes towards Muslims were seen as Islamophobic by a majority of Muslim respondents.

The study also found differences within each group. Age was not a factor for Muslim respondents. Education played an important role for both groups, but seemed to push sensitivity in opposite directions. When I look at recent acts of violence — Palestinian children being pressure-hosed by Israel Defense Forces worshippers being kicked in the head while in prayer, women being dragged by their head-scarves — I have to decide between silent hope and ignoring reality.

I fear I may be questioned before God about my silence in the face of blatant oppression. Israel claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East, yet it engages in some of the same tactics that the world has condemned when carried out by others in the region.

Military police confronting protestors who demand basic human rights, enforcing curfews through physical violence, and demolishing entire neighborhoods in search of a few men. The Palestinian people have been oppressed for nearly years — starting with the Ottomon Empire in the early s, before the British, the Jordanians, and finally, since the late 20th century, the Israelis. When we consider the traumatic history of the Jewish people, and the horrors of the Holocaust, we must also consider the collective transgenerational trauma of the Palestinians.

And yet, we hear so much about the violent tactics some Palestinian groups engage in. Those are the headlines the news media writes.