ISRAELI ARABS CALL FOR TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST JEWS

Members of the National Democratic Assembly (Balad) Party, an Arab parliamentary list represented in the Knesset, have been shown in a video chanting in Arabic "Our Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine] – we want an attack from you" and "Oh [PLFP chief Ahmed] Sadaat we want weapons to build." The video was screened by Israel TV's Channel One in connection with Arab protests over Land Day in the Arab village of Arrabe ('Israeli Arabs call for terror attacks against Israel at Land Day protest,' Independent Media Review Analysis, March 30, 2008).This blatant incitement to terror has been one of many developments in recent years pointing to the increasing disloyalty, radicalization, repudiation of Israel as a Jewish state and support for Israel's enemies by many Israeli Arab citizens.

Other recent indications of increasing Israeli Arab disloyalty to Israel and non-acceptance of Israel as a Jewish state:

* According to a March 2007 report by Israel's General Secret Service (GSS – Shin Bet), in 2005, 17 terror cells involving 22 Israeli Arabs was uncovered by Israeli security services. In 2006, a further 21 Israeli-Arab terror cells were uncovered, involving 24 Arab citizens.
* A January 2006 survey has found that Israeli Arabs willing to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) decreased significantly following the second Lebanon war, falling from an already low figure of 42% of the Arab population in 2006 to an even lower 26.5% in 2007 (Yediot Ahronot, January 17, 2007).
* In December 2006, the Mossawa Center the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel, an Arab advocacy group, produced a paper, 'Constitution Based on Equality for All' which calls for overturning the Law of Return which allows for automatic citizenship for Jews who immigrate to Israel. (Independent Media Review & Analysis, December 6, 2006).
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* Similarly, the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee also released a document in December 2006 entitled, 'The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel,' stipulating that Israeli Arabs will demand that during the next two decades Israel become a binational state alongside an independent Palestinian state (Haaretz, December 6, 2006).
* In March 2007, Israel's General Secret Service (GSS – Shin Bet) produced an internal document which showed that in 2006, 21 Israeli-Arab terror cells were uncovered, involving 24 Arab citizens. In 2005, the numbers were 17 terror cells involving 22 Arabs.
* Some 40% of the Israeli Arabs involved in terrorism originated in Judea and Samaria but were permitted to come to pre-'67 Israel and receive Israeli residency after marrying Israeli-Arabs. They are then permitted to travel freely throughout the country.

A sample of recent troubling statements by Israeli Arab members of Knesset:

Azmi Bishara: Has praised Syria for its "struggle to liberate occupied Arab land, its resistance against occupation and its defense of the legitimacy of such resistance" (Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2006); stated that "We are Syria's ally" and supported its efforts to free "occupied Arab land" (Haaretz, September 10, 2006); condemned "Israel's barbaric onslaughts" against Lebanon and urged Hizballah's Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah to "continue his fight" (Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2006) and warned Syria of likely "preemptive Israeli strikes" (Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2006), something of which he might well have knowledge as a result of his presence in the Knesset.

* Jamal Zahalka: "For us Syria is no enemy ... [we support] solidarity with Syria, especially after Israel's savage aggression against Lebanon" (Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2006); "We don't see Syria as an enemy state" (Haaretz, September 10, 2006)
* Wasal Taha: terrorist groups should "concentrate their efforts on attacking and abducting Israeli soldiers" (Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2006).

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "The evidence that has emerged in recent years regarding the increasingly radicalization and disloyalty of increasing numbers of Israeli Arabs is deeply worrying and something which few people seem willing to address. However, the evidence is so alarming that it is not surprising that Israel's General Secret Service (GSS – Shin Bet) has produced an internal document that holds that Israel's Arab population is a "genuine long-range danger to the Jewish character and very existence of the State of Israel." The paper cites worrisome data in various spheres, including increasing Israeli-Arab solidarity and identification with terrorist elements, including the Lebanese Islamist terrorist group Hizballah and the Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority (PA). These are issues that the ZOA has raised before and will continue to raise until action is taken on them."