ABSTRACT
In a highly ideologized and politicized society like Israel, the Jewish political parties shape and nurture all five types – conciliationists, pragmatists, hardliners, exclusionists, and egalitarianists – in Jewish population. Egalitarianism would imply de-Judaization and de-Zionization of Israel and its recasting into either a secular-democratic state, in which Arab and Jewish statuses will be privatized, or a binational state, where Arab and Jewish parity will be instituted without the guarantee of a Jewish majority. Only Rakah, the Communist Party, espouses egalitarianism. The validity of the typology is evident in the close fit between the division into types and political divisions in Jewish public. Conciliationist Jews believe in greater equality between Arabs and Jews in all areas. Hence they call on Israel to adopt as an important, urgent state goal the closure of Arab-Jewish socioeconomic disparity. The pragmatists share in common many of the conciliationists' liberal views. Both accept the Arab minority's right to live in Israel with full civil rights.
