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By (author) Khaizran, Yusri Hazran; By (author) Khalaily, Muhammad
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The Arab Spring initially ignited excitement for Arab society in Israel. But following the outbreak of the uprising in Syria, Israeli-Arab attitudes shifted. This book demonstrates why the Arab Spring, and especially the war in Syria, provoked such deep fragmentation for Palestinians in Israel. Based on governmental and public surveys, the book shows that many more Arab-Palestinian citizens became supportive of instrumental integration with Israeli politics following the Arab Spring. But the momentous events convinced other Arab citizens to abandon the connection between finding a solution for the Palestinian problem if it involved integration with the state. At the same time, this book reveals that the younger generations wanted to search for alternatives to replace the existing political frameworks completely and were inspired to form a new model of political activism. This is the first study to explore how the Arab Spring affected Arab society in Israel in terms of identity, political discourse and behaviour. In doing so it covers the new policy adopted by the central government in Israel, formed after 2011 to strengthen civic discourse amongst Arab citizens. It has been neither Israelization nor Zionization; but Instrumental integration which meets the conditional citizenship offered by the state.
Table of contents:
Preface.
Chapter 1: The PopularUprisings: A General Overview..
Introduction.
TheArab Spring as a formative event
Whydid the popular uprisings erupt in the Arab world?
Israeland the ‘Arab Spring’
Chapter 2: The Arab Minority in Israel and the Arab World – AnAmbivalent Relationship.
Background.
Thestatus of the Arab minority in the Jewish State.
Reciprocalpolitical relations between the Arab minority in Israel and the Arab world.
Chapter 3: The Political Discourse on the Arab Springwithin Arab Society in Israel
Thepolitical factions within Arab society in Israel
Aconfused discourse amid the disintegration of the political order in the Arabworld.
TheArab Spring in the eyes of educated Arabs in Israel
TheArab Spring as an Arab renaissance – supporters of the Spring.
Resistanceabove all: Those who sympathise with the Ba’ath regime.
The‘essentialist ethical’ camp.
Chapter 4: Organising among the Younger Arab Generation in Israel:A Stillborn Movement
Anew generation in the Arab world: The protest leaders.
Theeducated youth who took events into their own hands.
Newmedia in the service of the younger generation’s civil protests.
Whywas there no Palestinian ‘Young Spring’?
The ”Arab Spring” and the younger generationof Palestinians in Israel
Theyoung generation within Arab society in Israel
The Kifah(Struggle) Movement
Shababel-Taghyeer (Youth for Change)
Al-HarikAl-Shababi (The Youth Movement)
Urfod— Refuse, Your People will Protect You.
Fundraisingcampaigns for Syrian refugees.
HumanityCrew.
Politicalactivism influenced by the ‘Arab Spring’
Chapter 5: Undermining the National Discourse: Civil Debate,Communalism and Religiosity within Arab Society in Israel
Real-lifebehaviour within a changing reality.
Arabsin military/national service and in the police.
Ashift in government policy towards Arab citizens: From security threat toeconomic burden.
HousingPlan No. 4432 (The Trajtenberg Committee)
EconomicPlan No. 922.
Israel’sMuslim population and the Islamic State.
Christian Arabs and the ‘Arab Spring’: The dream andits demise.
TheDruze and their fears for survival
MansurAbbas’s turn-about: Rising from the bottom, not imposed from above.
The Breakup of The Joint Lis
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