ABSTRACT
The Jewish-Arab ethnic cleavage which is essentially cultural, is reinforced by the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Arab countries and the Palestinian people. There have been several scholarly attempts to explore and analyze the situation of Arabs in Israel from different vantage points. Indeed, policies of social and economic exclusion, which are the focus of the present study, as well as other forms of separation, have frustrated the prospect of the emergence of such a shared construct. S. Smooha has pointed out that Israel's Jewish-dominated world-view sees Arabs as a cultural, religious, or linguistic minority rather than a national minority. The most comprehensive and radical application of the dependency approach to the situation of Arabs in Israel has been made by E. Zuriek. Zuriek evoked the theoretical framework of internal colonialism to characterize Jewish-Arab (Palestinian) relations. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
