Strategic Assessment

The violent incidents involving Arab-Israelis in early October 2000, and their subsequent boycott of the prime ministerial elections in February 2001, made the issue of their relations with both Jews and the Israeli government an urgent issue on the public agenda. A sense of this urgency can be seen in, among other things, the intensive preoccupation with this issue on the part of the written and electronic media, and in the number of seminars dedicated to it by various important academic bodies throughout the country.