ABSTRACT
Roman claims that Israel’s attitude affected the residents not only in political oppression or military occupation but also in the broader sense of separating the residents from the citizens the Israeli authorities and applying the familiar differential treatment between the center and the periphery. The degree of development and budget allocation is different in central areas of the country and in rural, peripheral areas; this difference sometimes coincides with different national or cultural identities of the people living in these areas. The image of the supervisors, as portrayed by the principals and teachers, primarily represents the Israeli authorities’ oppressive relation toward the residents. Interviewees stated that failed principals were actually promoted to supervisors to oversee their schools. In various descriptions of the relations between Palestinians and Israelis, Rabah Halabi says Israel not only occupies Palestinian land but also the Palestinian consciousness.
