Strategic Assessment

The Arabs of Israel have devoted scant attention to the issue of their relations with the nascent Palestinian State. Even the unprecedented riots which broke out in October in Arab population centers within Israel, initially out of solidarity with their brethren in “the territories”, has not engendered a serious discussion among the Arabs of Israel as to whether the Palestinian state taking shape in the “territories” might be a possible solution for them. On the contrary, ideas put forward before and after the “October Riots” by some Jewish Israelis to transfer areas with high density Arab populations (Wadi A’ra and the “triangle”) to the Palestinian state, have been met with sharp opposition by Arab-Israeli politicians.