ABSTRACT
The deplorable acts carried out in the occupied territories on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, which began in December 1987 and led to the Arabs’ adoption of the name intifada, placed the Israeli Arab citizens of the state of Israel in a difficult position. Israeli Arabs are those Arabs who remained within the borders of the state of Israel, as determined by the armistice between Israel and the Arab states after the 1948 war. These Arabs, who became Israeli citizens, were in fact severed from the rest of the Palestinian population who lived west of the Jordan River and until 1967 were under the rule of Jordan or Egypt. Only after the Six Day War and Israel’s capture of what is defined as Judea, Samaria (West Bank) and the Gaza Strip (thereafter referred to as ‘the territories’) was there a reconnection of both sectors of the Palestinian people.
