ABSTRACT
The Arab minority that remained in Israel after the War of Independence assumed the image of a dangerous enemy to the Jewish majority. The source of this image lay in the implications ‘of the hostile Arab countries’ threat to the danger of a minority remaining within the borders of the State’. 1 Fear and distrust explain the separatist policy directed by the Jews at the Arabs in Israel, until the abolition of the military government in 1966. The Arabs during this period were living in ‘isolation from the mainstream of life that was developing in the country’; 2 this was ‘a de facto “ghettoization” that turned Israel into a “Nation State”‘. 3 This division explains the near-disappearance of the Arabs from Israeli culture of this period, or their presence as threatening and despised stereotypes. 4
