The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000: A Political Study

by Ganim, Asad

• ISBN13: 9780791449981
• ISBN10: 079144998X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

As'ad Ghanem is Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Haifa's Department of Political Science and the Peace Research Institute in Givat Haviva

Table of Contents

List of Tables	xi
Preface	xiii
Part One INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND	1	(28)
The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: Historical Background	11	(18)
The Palestinian National Movement before 1948	12	(5)
Two Distinct Periods in the History of the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel	17	(9)
Factors That Influence the Political Development of the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel	26	(3)
Part Two PALESTINIAN-ARABS IN ISRAEL: DIFFERENT MANIFESTATIONS OF POLITICS	29	(126)
Political and Ideological Streams among the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel	31	(8)
Classification of the Ideological and Political Streams among the Arabs in Israel	31	(4)
Criteria for Characterizing the Ideological Streams among the Arabs in Israel	35	(1)
Political and Ideological Streams among the Arabs in Israel	36	(3)
The Israeli-Arab Stream	39	(26)
Organization and Public Support	39	(5)
Positions on Key Questions	44	(17)
Profile of the Israeli-Arab Stream	61	(4)
The Communist Stream	65	(30)
Organization and Public Support	65	(10)
Positions on Key Questions	75	(17)
Profile of the Communist Stream	92	(3)
The National Stream	95	(28)
Organization and Public Support	95	(11)
Positions on Key Questions	106	(14)
Profile of the National Stream	120	(3)
The Islamic Stream	123	(14)
Organization and Public Support	123	(2)
Positions on Key Questions	125	(10)
Profile of the Islamic Stream	135	(2)
Local Politics: The Clan as an Alternative Stream	137	(18)
Local Elections	140	(11)
The Committee of Arab Local Council Heads and the Follow-up Committee for Arabs in Israel as Consensus-Based Organizations	151	(4)
Part Three THE POLITICAL DISTRESS OF THE PALESTINIAN-ARABS IN ISRAEL: LOOKING FOR WAYS OUT OF THE PREDICAMENT	155	(46)
The Political Distress of the Palestinian-Arab Minority as a Reflection of the ``Jewish State'' Apparatus	157	(18)
State and Majority Commitment to the Zionist Jewish Nature of Israel: Excluding the Arabs	157	(6)
The Predicament of Arab Politics in the Jewish State	163	(7)
Civil Society as an Alternative	170	(5)
Toward Fulfilling the Right to Be Included: The Arabs' Future in a Binational Palestinian-Israeli State	175	(26)
The Multi-Faceted Distress in the Internal Dimension of the Palestinian-Arab Minority Development	176	(4)
Toward Normalization of the Situation of the Arabs in Israel	180	(3)
The Binational Reality in Mandatory Palestine/Eretz Israel	183	(1)
Historical Sources for the Binational Idea	184	(6)
Factors Delaying a Separation between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Factors Raising the Likelihood of the Establishment of a Joint State	190	(6)
A Binational Model for Israeli-Palestinian Relations	196	(4)
The Palestinian-Arabs in Israel and the Binational System	200	(1)
Appendix	201	(2)
Notes	203	(12)
References	215	(14)
Index	229