A majority of the Jewish public in Israel – 63.7 percent – believes the Israeli government should encourage Israeli Arabs to emigrate from Israel, according to a University of Haifa poll released yesterday.
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The survey, conducted by the university's National Security Study Center, also found 48.6 percent of the Israeli Jews polled said the government was too sympathetic to the Arab population. The majority of Jewish respondents, 55.3 percent, said Israeli Arabs endangered national security, while 45.3 percent said they supported revoking Israeli Arabs' right to vote and hold political office.
About one-quarter of the Jewish public said they would consider voting for an ultra-right-wing party if such a party were to run in the next elections, the survey revealed.
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Arabs living in Israel have more rights than those living in any Arab country, including the right to vote and hold office, and Israel's Arabs have a higher per-capita income than Arabs in the rest of the Mideast.
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Some nationalist movements and parties in Israel have been advocating the transfer of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan, but Jordan's King Abdullah has always been against such moves, which could threaten his Heshimite minority rule.
"The Palestinians are no different from the rest of the Arabs in the Mideast," Benny Elon of Israel's National Union Party told WND.
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"Israel's most dangerous strategy was the creation of a 'Palestinian People,' a so-called indigenous people, as if to justify the existence of a group of Arabs as worthy and rightful owners of parts of Israel," Elon said.
Palestinians speak the same dialect of Arabic that is used in Jordan and Syria, and have the same family structure, customs, dress, foods, music and social values as most of the Arab world.
