A more accurate presentation of Israel where Israeli jews and Israeli arab work together and achieve great things. Thank you ynet for not limiting your coverage of israeli-arabs to only when there is a demonstration or when an arab MK says something you don't like.

the benefits can be astounding.

Their invention seems like a marvelous idea. I hope that they are able to experience the joy of saving many lives - of saving many entire worlds. For the moment, in the competition, congratulations and best of luck!

Rather your comments should include a big thanks to this great Jewish country that gives the opportunityto young Arab girls to work with Jewish Doctors and study in Jewish schools among the Jews using the Jewish education system, facilities and Jewish academic thrust to open the doors for their acheivements. Lucky girls. If only the millions of other Arabs in this region would stop hating Jews. They could learn so much from Jewish Israel. but no, just last week the newspaper reported that about 63% of you Israel Arabs think that there shouldn't be a Jewish state. Nice, huh? And I wonder if, given the golden opportunities these young Arab girls have, if they will see the light and support the country that gives them so much. We will see.

No-one would dispute that Israel has given these young Arab girls an opportunity to work with Jewish doctors and to learn in the Jewish education system. That is wonderful. However, it is equally important to celebrate the contribution that these young Arab citizens are making to the welfare of all the people of Israel. It is unhelpful to politicize this event in a chauvinistic manner. I am sure Julie did not mean to do this, nor to treat Arab citizens as ungrateful colonized subjects.

It is well know that Arabs living in Israel ARE generally ungrateful about everything they enjoy in Israel. As for the "colonized"....welll that is a specialty of Britain, not Israel

Julie, Arabs are just as much citizens of the state of Israel as Jews. They are simply entitled to have the same benefits as Jews. There is no reason why they should be especially thankful for everything they have, especially given the fact that they are still treated as 2nd class citizens in Israel with the same duties (except the military, but when did they ever ask to be excluded??). However they have far less rights, get less salary for the same type of work, if they manage to get employed anyway, have to deal with anti-Arab racism especially from Lieberman and some state-paid extremist rabbis with the government never saying anything about it, etc, etc, etc. These are the main reasons that Arabs in Israel are not enthusiastic about a Jewish state. You cannot hold Arabs in Israel responsible for the way Arab countries are behaving and therefore you cannot use it as an excuse either. It's the same as stating that blacks in the USA (including Rosa Parks) never had any reason to complain about their situation in America because blacks in Africa are often even worse off (which is true!)

Well said. By the same token, in the midst of the Holocaust is moderate antisemitism acceptable? Julie, I agree that Britain has a history of rampant colonialism and imperialism - and the Jewish people in (then) Palestine were among its victims. However, does that justify a formerly oppressed people adopting the clothes of the oppressor? Finally, even if Israeli Arab citizens are meant to be 'grateful' (peasants paying homage to their feudal lords?) to say 'it is well known...' is an utterance which usually masks an inability to support arguments with evidence.