Arabs And Jews In Israel

In this treatment of the problem of Arab-Jewish coexistence in Israel, which furnishes data on the news of Israel's divided population, Dr. Smooha challenges the gloomy perspective that impediments to peaceful relations between Israel's Jewish majority and Arab minority will inevitably lead to ever more violent confrontation. He asserts instead that equality and integration between Arabs and Jews have been increasing over the past several decades: Arabs have availed themselves of the democratic means to negotiate better terms of co-existence with Jews, and Jews are gradually incorporating Arabs into their political institutions. Dr Smooha has confirmed these trends through comprehensive surveys of many hundreds of Arabs and Jews in 1980, 1985 and 1988. In the first volume of this two-volume set, the author analyzes the disagreement and accord between Arabs and Jews on a variety of key issues. The second volume reports the findings of the 1985 and 1988 follow-up surveys and focuses on trends over time.