Efraim Karsh: Israel’s Arab Citizens Are the „Main Danger“ to Its Future

by Marilyn Stern
Middle East Forum Webinar
July 6, 2021

(…) „According to Karsh, the „main danger to Israel’s continued success, or even existence over the long run,“ is posed not by Iran or the myriad armed Islamist proxies operating along its frontiers, but by Arab citizens of Israel. Comprising roughly one fifth of the population, over the past quarter century Israeli Arabs have increasingly come to adopt a Palestinian identity, „reject Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state,“ and employ „both violent and … sophisticated means to achieve this goal.“ „(…)

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