Israeli Arabs more afraid than Jews of enemy attack, poll finds

The annual 'National Resilience' survey has been conducted since 2000. Most recently it was conducted in November during Operation Pillar of Defense, polling 2,000 respondents, including 400 Arabs.

By Gili Cohen | 14:26 11.03.13 |

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Israeli Arabs are more afraid than the Jewish public of being attacked by an enemy state, according to the annual "National Resilience" survey.

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Do you know why
- By Jobs
- 11 Mar 2013
- 07:59PM
Beacuse they will be squezed from both sides?
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They must be thankful they are not on the other side
- By Toto
- 11 Mar 2013
- 03:33PM
where precision bombs rain on civilians
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What was the purpose of this survey? Anyone?
- By Michael G
- 11 Mar 2013
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Most of the non-arabs have dual citizenship and can run when things turn sour. The Palestininan citizen have no other place to go
- By hohoho
- 11 Mar 2013
- 01:57PM
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  Care to share the statistics?
  - By Alex
  - 11 Mar 2013
  - 03:33PM
  80% of Israelis have been born is Israel. Very few of them have another citizenship.
  
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  Palestinians can go to their own state Jordan.
  - By Ray
  - 11 Mar 2013
  - 07:41PM
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  No place to hide from their buddies.
  - By Ben Ze'ev
  - 12 Mar 2013
  - 02:13AM
  Yes they have, they can go to Jordan or Egypt where they belong.
  
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  Go bck
  - By john
  - 12 Mar 2013
  - 03:57AM
  Why dont the Americans and Russian and all settlers go back as well?
  
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of course, arabs lack the protection enjoyed by non-arabs.
- By Gray
- 11 Mar 2013
- 01:29PM
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Arabs are afraid! You bet!
- By Observer
- 11 Mar 2013
- 01:17PM
If Ahmadinejad unleashes its long range missiles it will certainly affect all the Arabs (Muslims as well Christians) in the area. Israel will try to intercept these missiles above populated Arab areas before it lands on Israel itself. Boom Boom
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  indeed, 22 arab states fear israeli missiles and nukes.
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  - 11 Mar 2013
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  You mean the (23, now) Arab states that offered permanent
  - By Melissa
  - 11 Mar 2013
  - 07:52PM
  peace in their proposal? What are the terms of Israel's proposal?
  
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Gee I wonder why??..
- By roger
- 11 Mar 2013
- 00:02PM
With the recent rash of Israeli on Arab citizen attacks, perhaps they fear something worse than spittings & beatings..
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