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I have a history lesson on how arabs feel about Israel How do Arabs truly feel about Israel?
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I feel like this Question is looking for a “surprise” Answer that differs from the obvious one, but there is no such Answer.
The majority of the world’s 400 million Arabs despise Israel (the country) for several reasons:
They see it as a Western colonial project and not the return of an indigenous expelled people to their homeland.They see it as a power that has destroyed Palestinian lives, livelihoods, and the Palestinian right to a state by building on the remnants of their society. Conversely, over 4 million Palestinians languish in refugee camps managed by UNRWA.They see it is as an aggressive and belligerent power that has gone to war with Arabs at least once a decade and is responsible for horrible and shameful defeats of their militaries in these successive wars.They see it as a country that, in its occupation of the West Bank, creates an apartheid system of military governance there, leading to Jewish Israeli Settlers having their legal issues resolved by civil courts and Palestinian Arabs having their legal issues resolved by Israeli military tribunals.
Of course, many Arabs also see positive aspects of Israel such as its technological innovation, its domestic democracy (e.g. inside the Green Line), its treatment of minorities, its economic success, and other similar issues and wish that these elements could be incorporated into their own countries. However, none of these things outweighs the negativity from the four above points in the minds of most Arabs.
There are, of course, a minority of Arabs, such as those mentioned in Idan Tobis' Answer, like Brigitte Gabriel, Mosab Hassan Yousef, and others, usually who are Israeli Arabs or Lebanese Christians or Palestinian Arabs who have discovered something that moved them about Israel or Judaism, who have an ideological allegiance with Israel because they see it as the least bad actor in the region or even a positive force in the region. But these views are not “secretly” held by many other Arabs; most Arabs feel hatred for Israeli politics and the Israeli State.
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I feel like this Question is looking for a “surprise” Answer that differs from the obvious one, but there is no such Answer.
The majority of the world’s 400 million Arabs despise Israel (the country) for several reasons:
They see it as a Western colonial project and not the return of an indigenous expelled people to their homeland.They see it as a power that has destroyed Palestinian lives, livelihoods, and the Palestinian right to a state by building on the remnants of their society. Conversely, over 4 million Palestinians languish in refugee camps managed by UNRWA.They see it is as an aggressive and belligerent power that has gone to war with Arabs at least once a decade and is responsible for horrible and shameful defeats of their militaries in these successive wars.They see it as a country that, in its occupation of the West Bank, creates an apartheid system of military governance there, leading to Jewish Israeli Settlers having their legal issues resolved by civil courts and Palestinian Arabs having their legal issues resolved by Israeli military tribunals.
Of course, many Arabs also see positive aspects of Israel such as its technological innovation, its domestic democracy (e.g. inside the Green Line), its treatment of minorities, its economic success, and other similar issues and wish that these elements could be incorporated into their own countries. However, none of these things outweighs the negativity from the four above points in the minds of most Arabs.
There are, of course, a minority of Arabs, such as those mentioned in Idan Tobis' Answer, like Brigitte Gabriel, Mosab Hassan Yousef, and others, usually who are Israeli Arabs or Lebanese Christians or Palestinian Arabs who have discovered something that moved them about Israel or Judaism, who have an ideological allegiance with Israel because they see it as the least bad actor in the region or even a positive force in the region. But these views are not “secretly” held by many other Arabs; most Arabs feel hatred for Israeli politics and the Israeli State.
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