Today,the Israel Democracy Institute released its annual Peace Index. You can download the entire document here, but I’ll summarize the findings some of you may find surprising – and all Israel haters will find inconvenient.
1. 61% of Israeli Arabs surveyed describe their personal situation as good, with a further 31% as not bad
So only 8% of Arabs here say their personal situation is bad. I dare you to compare that with the sentiments of Arabs in any Arab country.
2. These positive results apply whether Muslim, Christian or Druze
3. A majority of Israeli Arabs (51%) surveyed are optimistic about Israel’s future
4. Most Israeli Arabs (55%) surveyed are proud to be Israeli
5. 25% of Israeli Arabs surveyed most identify as Israeli, and only half that as Arab ‘Palestinian’
Even though Israel haters love to refer to Israeli Arabs as Arab-Palestinians, the Israeli Arabs surveyed would mostly rather be thought of as Israeli. As the study says, this counters “the widespread claim that a major process of Arab-Palestinization has taken.”
Not only that, but more Israeli Arabs surveyed see their strongest identity as ‘Israeli’ (25%) over ‘Arab’ (24%)!
The preference to identify as ‘Israeli’ over Arab ‘Palestinian’ applies whether we are talking Muslim or Christian.
6. Most Israeli Arabs surveyed (52%) see Israel’s military-security situation as good
7. Most Israeli Arabs surveyed (54%) agree Israel should fight terror as we see fit
Another one to make the haters’ heads spin!
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